In response to the Berlin Blockade the United States began a massive airlift off food,water, and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city. Supplies from American planes sustained over 2 million people in West Berlin.
Both sophists and philosophers were well trained and highly educated, but the main difference was that a sophist taught others and they got paid for that. It is said that their own wealth was their only goal.
Philosophers, such as Socrates, refused to get paid.
Throughout history, the sophists have had a reputation as professionally amoral, . They would help people to attain any goal, regardless of what it was. They would take any case, promote any cause, and empower any person, if the money was right.
Philosophers, for the most part, have walked on the side of the angels. They may sometimes have had reputations as prolix and obscure, complex and abstract, out of touch, but they have, for the most part, seemed to be purer souls in their focus and work.
In other words, the sophists were much more concerned about how than about why. The philosophers have always been more cautious.
Between the time periods of 600-1450 Common Era, it was
referred to as the dark ages in Europe because the cities and regions in Europe
lack poetry, which was a dark experience. It was not really a dark globally,
but only in the part of Europe wherein poetry vanished, but right after the
dark ages, was the beginning of the modern age, which gave life to poetry and
to music once more.
In order to establish a system of balances to create equal division of power. They didn't want the president to have to much power because the branches might do crazy things.
