the sophists :Wisdom for Money
Athens was a marketplace for new ideas. A group of thinkers called the 'Sophists"
retailed their own brand of philosophy as a kind of self-help product. They travelled around giving lessons to sons of affluent families in return for large sums of money.
"SOPHOS" means "WISDOM" but the trouble is,The Sophists are merely clever at being wise.
We teach ambitious young men the art of rhetorical persuasion to advance their careers in public assemblies.
For the Sophists, the"good man" was one able to dazzle and confound his opponents in political debate
and so become influential Sophists were especially popular amongst the newly rich Athenian families who had sons
to put into the world.