"It might seem puzzling to say that the Sophists were the heirs of
the Presocratics, since at
divided, not united, by their interests. Few of the Sophists (at least,
as far as we can now tell from the sparse available evidence) made
any, or any signi
if one or two of the Presocratics touched on the nature
of humans and their institutions, this was still not their focus, and
was a rami
Sophists were more interested in language, in all aspects of
than they were in the nature and origin of the world. However, the
Sophists were the immediate heirs of the Presocratic scienti
in the sense that, once the Presocratics had made the world at
least potentially comprehensible to the human mind, a humanist or
anthropocentric emphasis on the importance of human beings was
inevitable. The Sophists were the
in moral, social, and political philosophy. And, interestingly, this
narrower focus of theirs means that their work is more alive to us
today than that of the Presocratics, because whereas science has left
the speculative answers of the Presocratics far behind, we still debate
the kinds of questions in which the Sophists were interested."
-The First Philosophers The PreSocratics and The Sophists
Robin Waterfield
.first glance the two groups seem to beficant advances in scientific matters,
let alone metaphysics;fication of or deduction from their central interests.
Thelogos,fic revolutionfirst seriously to raise questions
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