Was the Good Relativised by the Sophists?

• Authors: Pacewicz A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This is an attempt to examine a belief prevalent in many works on the philosophy of the sophist that as a school of thought the sophists were relativists, or to be more precise, ethical relativists. The article is composed of two main parts. The first part offers a theoretical framework for the following analysis which starts from presenting and discussing a theory of ethical mutabilism formulated by the Polish philosopher Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz. The second part contains a review of sophistic opinions on ethical values and attempts to show that they cannot be considered relativistic without further qualifications.

Keywords

EN

ETHICAL RELATIVISM; SOPHIST'S PHILOSOPHY; TATARKIEWICZ WLADYSLAW

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2(54)
• Pages: 7-22
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Pacewicz A.

• A. Pacewicz, Uniwersytet Wroclawski, Instytut Filozofii, ul. Koszarowa 3, 51-149 Wroclaw, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05PLAAAA00431055