Sophist___Sophism

Sophist / Sophism Sophism Sophism teaches people the art of speech making and cross-examination. It is a clever way of arguing by using reason. The subjects that were taught by sophist were science, music, poetry, speech and cross-examinations. Scientific explanations are used to prove that oracles do not tell you what to do. Sophism tries to explain to those that don’t understand that omens are not signs from gods but are natural occurrences. Sophist teachings allow people to understand that when an omen is supposedly answered, it is not the gods, but a mere coincidence. Sophism has changed religion and caused a great deal of confusion for those that strongly believed in the gods, omens and oracles. This caused a great deal of questions to be asked and arguments to occur. People did not want to hear the reason that the sophist would put forth. They didn’t want to believe that the gods were not answering their prayers. The scientific explanations didn’t make sense to them, especially since they were brought up believing in gods and oracles. Trusting that if they put their faith in the gods, things would work out for them. The religious were said to have a lack of experience when it sophist, pericles, people, alcibiades, athenians, things, way, didn’t, socrates, teachings, made, war, speech, said, one, came, because, wanted, melians, gods, making, make, just, sophism, out, reason, put, others, man, even, understand, started, side, go, believe, athenian