Sophists

The first period was pre-rational phase in which representative thoughts were the teaching ideas of Sophists, Plato and scholasticism.

国外教学论的发展经历以下几个阶段：第一，前理性时期。代表思想是智者派的教学思想、柏拉图的教学思想和经院哲学流派的教学思想。

to them, the sophists appeared frivolous and immoral.

在他们看来智者们是轻佻的、不道德的。

On the whole, the cynics school of ancient Greece that inherited the view of The Sophists and Socrates, appeared in the era background of intensified social conflicts.

综合来看，古希腊犬儒主义学派的观点受到智者学派的思想启示，也继承了苏格拉底的某些主张，产生于古希腊社会转型期矛盾激化的时代背景之下。

In particular the Sophists questioned the possibility of achieving knowledge about such things at all.

尤其是智者派,他们对于能否获取这方面的知识提出了质疑.

It'soon resembled reason manipulated by the sophists.

它能很快编造出那些只有诡辩论者才能列举的理由.

Many politicians are cunning sophists.

许多政客都是狡猾的诡辩家.