Philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome

The great deserve of the Sophists in school of thought was that they drew attendance to the problems of hu cosmos connection , of cognition. Sophists | divided into elderly and minor(postnominal) . Seniors - Protagoras ( 481-411 BC) , Gorgias , Hippias , Prodicus , Antifont , Kseniad junior - Alki Dame Trasimah , Crete, Callicles . quondam(a) Sophists were contemporaries of the Pythagoreans Filolaya , eleativ Zeno and genus Melissa , physicists Empedocles, Anaxagoras and Levkipa . Younger sophists lived and worked in the late and archeozoic IV century. BC Sophists - is non the precisely school or current. Sharing in their views - rationalize inherent phenomena, social and estimable relativism , the rejection of religion. Protagoras proclaimed the dissertation: Man - the stride of all things: for quick - they equal for non-existent - that they do not exist . Any rectitude - some stars opinion ( opinion). That is on-key , according to Protagoras , is eer subjective. T rue that considers unfeigned or that subject. This is relativism.\nA huge witch on antediluvian school of thought do ​​Socrates ( 469- PO ^ s BC) . Socrates - Athens head start ( by birth) tenet (^ s coetaneous of Democritus. It is interesting not only for its instruct, merely all their ^ in life, because his life has bodied his teachings. At the affectionateness of the philosophy of Socrates - a man. But it is seen principally as a righteous existence. Therefore, the philosophy of Socrates - is an honourable anthropologism. Interests of Socrates was a stranger to both(prenominal) mythology and metaphysics. Philosophy of Socrates was innate(p) under cardinal main motto is : Know thyself and I know that I know zippo . The first motto) was write above the entrance to the temple of Apollo at Delphi, the second death -| Socrates relates .\nIn the philosophical study of ethical issues Socrates employ a method that he called mayyevtykoyu . Objective Maieutics - across-the-board discussion of any subject interpretation . Socrates first raised to the level of knowledge of thoughts. If he used the concepts of philosophers and then doing it spontaneously. further Socrates pointed out that if at that place is no concept , there is no knowledge. Socrates belief in the existence of object truth leads him to the finis that there be objective moral standards that the difference among right and untimely are not relative, but absolute.\n set in the nub of his philosophy of man , Socrates argues w deduce the creation a person provoke only erudite yourself, your life, business, and this is the main project of philosophy. In the muniment of philosophy associated with the make water of Socrates existence of alleged(prenominal) Socratic schools that give up names: faultfinder , Cyrenaica , meharyky .\nPlato ( 427-347 BC ) - one of the greatest philosophers in history , was of Athenian aristocratic family . The hearty na me of Plato - Aristokl Plato - the nickname (from platyus - wide , abundant ). He looks attentive . In general, they populate of a carcass which includes : 1) the scheme of being , and 2) the doctrine of paragon , and 3) the doctrine of the world , and 4) the doctrine of the reference of the world , and 5) the doctrine of the soul , and 6) the possibility of knowledge , 7) teaching of morals and 8) theory of society .