The Sophists

And why my blog is named after them

Ancient Athens was a melting pot of ideas, and the Sophists played an important role in shaping the intellectual culture despite being viewed as morally corrupting. Socrates himself was accused of being a Sophist. Image: Socrates’ Address, by Louis Joseph Lebrun, 1867 (Public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons).

Like “cynic”, “sophist” is a word with anci…