The exile of the Sophistsin in their homland

Abstract

 The ancients linked sophistry with a number of fallacies.  Sophism, as they know it, is false wisdom.  The Sophist philosopher is a deceitful person who uses methods of deception and fraud to present falsehood with the appearance of truth, or to present falsehood with the appearance of truth.  Likewise, some later Sophists use logic fallaciously in order to teach students to win court cases.  However, the truth is something else. The great sheikhs of sophism, led by Protagoras, Gorgias, Antiphon, Hippias, Prodicus, Cadmus, and others, took upon themselves the task of enlightening the masses and teaching them the arts of rhetoric and statement.  The Sophists declared the principle of brotherhood among all human beings, and they said: with the idea of ​​a global community, in which national and religious differences disappear. They also distinguished between man-made laws that make people slaves or masters, and natural laws that return all members of the human race to a single origin .