sophistic

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“The first ‘renaissance’ of European history,” Mr. Roeck observes, “was the Second Sophistic, which began in Asia Minor and lasted from about 60 to 230 AD.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

This consequence of the Sophistic principles was drawn both by many of the Sophists themselves, and later by the Cyrenaics.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

But the principle is equally objectionable because, like the Sophistic theory, it founds morality upon mere feeling, instead of upon reason, and because it places the end of morality outside morality itself.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

Sophistic rhetoric, from its very nature and function, was bound to reflect the religious spirit of the age, in all its confusion.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel

The "Gorgias" discusses and refutes the Sophistic identification of virtue and pleasure, and attempts to show, as against it, that the good must be something objectively existent, and independent of the pleasure of the individual.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)