sophists and lawyers

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Wed Apr 26 02:03:07 PDT 2000


In message <7c.4a23603.26371956 at aol.com>, JKSCHW at aol.com writes


>As a lawyer I am, naturally, an admirer of the sophists.

I'm for lawyers - in their place, I guess. Plato's point was that the Sophists, in prostituting their intellects were degrading the public discourse. Perhaps a better analogy would be spin-doctors and PR people. -- Jim heartfield



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