Annals of Bioethics & Clinical Applications (ABCA)

ISSN: 2691-5774

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The Influence of the Sophists on Rousseau's Thought

Authors: Bariparousis G*

DOI: 10.23880/abca-16000156

Abstract

The Sophists were the creators of an important Enlightenment movement in ancient Greece, which characterized an era of great spiritual activity centred on the city of Athens in the 5th century BC. Century1, in which time was the focus of the democratic economic and spiritual life of the ancient Greek world. The first to use the term Enlightenment for the sophistry of the above century was Hegel in his work Vorlesugen über die Geschichte der philosophy. In this work Hegel expresses the view that with the sophist’s philosophical discourse took on an objective substance2.

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