The Apology
    Part
  1 Intro|       physical science and with the Sophists. But this was an error.
  2 Intro|   Anaxagoras, Phaedo, Laws; for the Sophists, Meno, Republic, Tim., Theaet.,
  3 Intro|              He does not attack the Sophists; for they were open to the
  4 Intro|            between Socrates and the Sophists is allowed to appear. He
  5 Text |             a world of money on the Sophists, Callias, the son of Hipponicus,


Charmides
    Part
  6 PreF |             Grote’s views about the Sophists; nor with the low estimate
  7 Intro|         both of Socrates and of the Sophists. In the argument he is not


Cratylus
    Part
  8 Intro|            to have gone home to the sophists and grammarians of the day.~
  9 Intro|          fancies of a new school of sophists and grammarians. The fallacies
 10 Intro|            to have a pure mind; the sophists are by a fanciful explanation
 11 Intro|            Several philosophers and sophists are mentioned by name: first,
 12 Intro|             you must learn from the Sophists, of whom your brother Callias
 13 Intro|      perhaps they were a species of sophists or rhetoricians, and so
 14 Text |            in thanks; these are the Sophists, of whom your brother, Callias,
 15 Text |            of heroes are a tribe of sophists and rhetors. But can you


Euthydemus
    Part
 16 Intro|        between Socrates and the two Sophists, although veiled, penetrates
 17 Intro|          that he will teach the two Sophists a lesson of good manners.
 18 Intro|             is not reviling the two Sophists, he is only contradicting
 19 Intro|       professing to teach?’ The two Sophists complain that Socrates is
 20 Intro| conversation with Cleinias. The two Sophists are like Proteus in the
 21 Intro|          with the exhibition of the Sophists: (1) In their perfect relevancy
 22 Intro|         after the manner of the two Sophists: (3) In the absence of any
 23 Intro|         relation of Socrates to the Sophists is still that of humorous
 24 Text |            are a new importation of Sophists, as I should imagine. Of


Gorgias
    Part
 25 Intro|     throughout Greece. Like all the Sophists in the dialogues of Plato,
 26 Intro|              he is the enemy of the Sophists; but favours the new art
 27 Intro|          one wise man, of which the Sophists, as he describes them in
 28 Intro|              he is the enemy of the Sophists and rhetoricians; and also
 29 Intro|              is not cleared up. The Sophists are still floundering about
 30 Intro|           or to another. Statesmen, Sophists, rhetoricians, poets, are
 31 Intro|          the ancient poets were the Sophists of their day. In some other
 32 Text |          professed sophist; for the sophists, although they are wise
 33 Text |           medicine. The orators and sophists, as I am inclined to think,


Ion
    Part
 34 Intro|             himself as the original sophists; and this family resemblance


Laches
    Part
 35 Intro|          never been able to pay the sophists for instructing him, and
 36 Text |           poor to give money to the Sophists, who are the only professors
 37 Text |           Prodicus, who, of all the Sophists, is considered to be the


Laws
    Book
 38 10   |           private mysteries and the Sophists, as they are termed, with


Meno
    Part
 39 Intro|        whether Meno shall go to the Sophists and be taught.’ The suggestion
 40 Intro|            teachers of it: (for the Sophists are bad teachers, and the
 41 Intro|      knowledge. The teaching of the Sophists is confessedly inadequate,
 42 Intro|          opinion as a fact, and the Sophists as the expression of it.~
 43 Intro|          ancient teachers, that the Sophists having made large fortunes;
 44 Intro|        learn of Socrates and of the Sophists. He may be regarded as standing
 45 Intro|            dialectics, in which the Sophists have failed to instruct
 46 Intro|          whether of Socrates or the Sophists, as fatal to Athenian greatness.
 47 Intro|            quibbling follies of the Sophists. In the Meno the subject
 48 Intro|          idealism. Like the ancient Sophists, he relegates the more important
 49 Text |            people whom mankind call Sophists?~ANYTUS: By Heracles, Socrates,
 50 Text |            SOCRATES: Has any of the Sophists wronged you, Anytus? What
 51 Text |         them be, if you please, the Sophists); I only ask you to tell
 52 Text |           more good to him than the Sophists.~SOCRATES: And did those
 53 Text |          what do you think of these Sophists, who are the only professors?
 54 Text |           do you not think that the Sophists are teachers?~MENO: I cannot
 55 Text |        SOCRATES: But if neither the Sophists nor the gentlemen are teachers,


Phaedrus
    Part
 56 Intro|     compared to the parodies of the Sophists in the Protagoras. Numerous
 57 Intro|          Protagoras he mocks at the Sophists; as in the Euthydemus he
 58 Intro|            interval which separates Sophists and rhetoricians from ancient
 59 Text |          lest they should be called Sophists by posterity.~SOCRATES:


Philebus
    Part
 60 Intro|           his hostility towards the sophists and rhetoricians was not
 61 Intro|         formerly fought against the Sophists; taking up a middle position
 62 Intro|            a world of money’ on the Sophists (compare Apol.; Crat.; Protag.).


Protagoras
    Part
 63 Intro|             had spent more upon the Sophists than all the rest of the
 64 Intro|        blacken the character of the Sophists; he only makes a little
 65 Intro|         favourite accusation of the Sophists that they received pay.
 66 Intro|           the self-assertion of the Sophists. There is quite as much
 67 Intro|          usual contrast between the Sophists representing average public
 68 Intro|      showing us the teaching of the Sophists under the milder aspect
 69 Intro|             after the manner of the Sophists, showing, as Alcibiades
 70 Intro|         which were practised by the Sophists—for the following reasons: (
 71 Intro|           both of the Poets and the Sophists, who are their interpreters,
 72 Intro|             always inclining to the Sophists, but eager for any intellectual
 73 Intro|         teaching and persons of the Sophists in some of the later Dialogues.
 74 Intro|             relation of Meno to the Sophists is much the same as that
 75 Text |   Protagoras, Hippias and Prodicus (Sophists). Callias, a wealthy Athenian.~
 76 Text |             the great inroad of the Sophists, must have heard us talking.
 77 Text |           us, he grumbled: They are Sophists—he is not at home; and instantly
 78 Text |             alarmed; for we are not Sophists, and we are not come to
 79 Text |           drudgery with which other Sophists are in the habit of insulting
 80 Text |           world by wisdom, like the Sophists of whom Protagoras was speaking,
 81 Text |       yourself, that although other Sophists conceal their profession,
 82 Text |          send your children, to the Sophists, who are the teachers of


The Republic
    Book
 83 6    |          our youth are corrupted by Sophists, or that private teachers
 84 6    |          things the greatest of all Sophists? And do they not educate
 85 6    |            you are aware, these new Sophists and educators, who are the
 86 6    |     individuals, whom the many call Sophists and whom they deem to be


The Sophist
    Part
 87 Intro|         tone is adopted towards the Sophists in a well-known passage
 88 Intro|         Plato is not justifying the Sophists in the passage just quoted,
 89 Intro|          lawyers, statesmen, poets, sophists. But the Sophist is the
 90 Intro|           itself.~Of late years the Sophists have found an enthusiastic
 91 Intro|               3) that the principal Sophists were not the corrupters
 92 Intro|            philosophers were called Sophists in the fifth century before
 93 Intro|         under the specific class of Sophists? To this question we must
 94 Intro|         import to the word; and the Sophists are regarded as a separate
 95 Intro|        Thales to Aristotle, and the Sophists of the age of Socrates,
 96 Intro|            been identified with the Sophists, and he seems to complain
 97 Intro|           nothing surprising in the Sophists having an evil name; that,
 98 Intro|           that he may have done the Sophists the same kind of disservice
 99 Intro|     disbelieving that the principal Sophists, Gorgias, Protagoras, Prodicus,
100 Intro|            corruption of youth, the Sophists were one among many signs;—
101 Intro|            sense, and therefore the Sophists could not have corrupted
102 Intro|            usual description of the Sophists, who in the early dialogues,
103 Intro|            now as statesmen, now as sophists, and are often deemed madmen. ‘
104 Intro|      ministers of the purification? Sophists I may not call them. Yet
105 Intro|          about the same likeness to Sophists as the dog, who is the gentlest
106 Text |         statesmen, and sometimes as sophists; and then, again, to many
107 Text |        definition. Now the tribe of Sophists which we are investigating
108 Text |            I know that the tribe of Sophists is troublesome and hard
109 Text |              I am afraid to say the Sophists.~THEAETETUS: Why?~STRANGER:
110 Text |              let us assume that the Sophists are the men. I say this
111 Text |         refer?~STRANGER: How do the Sophists make young men believe in


The Statesman
    Part
112 Intro|             his troop, the chief of Sophists, the prince of charlatans,
113 Intro|             idols—wizards, and also Sophists; for, after many windings,
114 Intro|             contemporary statesmen, sophists who had turned politicians,
115 Intro|            In this new disguise the Sophists make their last appearance
116 Text |              STRANGER: The chief of Sophists and most accomplished of
117 Text |            are also the greatest of Sophists.~YOUNG SOCRATES: The name


The Symposium
    Part
118 Intro|           logical feebleness of the sophists and rhetoricians, through
119 Intro|         their performance. Like the sophists and like Plato himself,
120 Text |          many. There are the worthy sophists too—the excellent Prodicus


Theaetetus
    Part
121 Intro|            friend and patron of all Sophists, declaring that he himself
122 Intro|           by the discovery that the Sophists are sometimes in the right
123 Intro|            True.’ ‘The thoroughbred Sophists, who know all that can be
124 Text |          SOCRATES: The thoroughbred Sophists, who know all that can be


Timaeus
    Part
125 Intro|         seen. And he fears that the Sophists, who are plentifully supplied
126 Text |       language. I am aware that the Sophists have plenty of brave words