
Reason's Dark Champions
Recent decades have witnessed a major restoration of the Sophists'' reputation, revising the Platonic and Aristotelian "orthodoxies" that have dominated the tradition. Still lacking is a full appraisal of the Sophists'' strategies of argumentation. Christopher W. Tindale corrects that omission in Reason''s Dark Champions. Viewing the Sophists as a group linked by shared strategies rather than by c...
Recent decades have witnessed a major restoration of the Sophists'' reputation, revising the Platonic and Aristotelian "orthodoxies" that have dominated the tradition. Still lacking is a full appraisal of the Sophists'' strategies of argumentation. Christopher W. Tindale corrects that omission in Reason''s Dark Champions. Viewing the Sophists as a group linked by shared strategies rather than by c...