How did the Sophists differ from the philosophers who preceded them? What was the Sophists’ attitude toward knowledge? In what way did Socrates agree with the Sophists, and in what way did he disagree?
Sophists refers to the group of philosophers or teachers who believed that truth was relative and tells about something that people ready to thought about it. They differ from the philosophers in the way that sophists taught about convincing others peoples that something is true and also gains the effective communication skills to telling about their queries.
Sophists agreed to the basic deal of knowledge by studying to the basic response of the relativity of the truth. One group of philosophers might suggest that there is presence of one truth behind the others. Infact, they also believed that anything is true by convincing others that it is true. Hence, nothing is specifically right or wrong by believing in it.
Socrates agreed with the sophists that individual’s experience is very important for the continuity and survival of the specific individuality. He studied the injunction by knowing thyself that was manuscript on the temple of Apollo at Delphi to study the basic importance of justifying the contents of one’s own body mind and thought processes.
Socrates also disagreed with the sophist’s conviction that there is no presence of discernible truth beyond the opinion of individual’s thinking. He believed that by studying a number of concepts of individual manifestations, the general thinking come into picture by handling precisely and clearly.