Meno
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All Themes Teaching, Learning, and Intellectual Inquiry Language, Rhetoric, and Reasoning Virtue, Ignorance, and Knowledge
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Meno

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    Teaching, Learning, and Intellectual Inquiry
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The Sophists

Teachers of philosophy, rhetoric, and virtue who practiced in the fifth and fourth centuries BC in Ancient Greece. Although it is difficult to discern the prevailing social opinion of the Sophists, it’s rather undisputed that… read analysis of The Sophists
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