GRGR (15): Good & Evil (was Enzian...)

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

David Morris wrote:

> Isn't that called "Sophism?"  

I know your just joking, but....

Sophists got a bad rap, mostly this is due to those two
Greek philosophers, one that had so much unfair fun at their
expense and one that made fun of their language games and
subjective science. 

How the sophist sees the world: "Man is the measure of all
things." and there is no reality but mine. Protagoras

The reality of the sophist: "The world is individual
sensations." Hume

What makes the world go round for the sophist: Conflict is
the method of things, Eros and Thanatos  Freud

The basic principles of sophists: "Man has free will."  
Augustine


This is the Sophistic. Very popular today, but should not be
dismissed, for it is one of the four foundations of western
thought. 

Terrance Not a sophist