Explain the intellectual and social context of sophist thought. Discuss the significance of sophist method of enquiry and thought in general.
Parmenides of Elea, active in the earlier part of the 5th c. BCE, authored a difficult metaphysical poem that has earned him a reputation as early Greek philosophy’s most profound and challenging thinker. His philosophical stance has typically been understood as at once extremely paradoxical and yet crucial for the broader development of Greek natural philosophy and metaphysics. He has been seen as a metaphysical monist (of one stripe or another) who so challenged the naïve cosmological theories of his predecessors that his major successors among the Pre-Socratic were all driven to develop more sophisticated physical theories in response to his arguments. The difficulties
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