[MD] Some historical perspective

[mark_maxwell at talktalk.net]

Squonk said:
Nietzsche suggests that the sophists and the philosophers 
were playing a game to try and out-do each other in 
order to establish who could produce the best rhetoric. 
The philosophers hammered their opponents with a new 
rhetorical move: Truth.

Nietzsche’s view re-wrote previous views of the sophists 
the philosophers and established the current academic 
norm.

Matt:
Really?  You think Nietzsche's the current academic norm?


squonk: Hi Matt,

Nietzsche blew away his contemporary academic view of Ancient Greek philology and it became replaced with his own.



All the best,

squonk