The term sophist, from the Greek sophía (σοφία), "wisdom" and sophós (σοφός), "wise", is the name given in classical Greece to which he professed to teach wisdom.
The sophists change the object of study of the ancient philosophy and begin to study man and society.
The aim ofthe sophists was to give information to young people to work in politics.
They are linked mainly with rhetoric and the use of the word, the art of persuading and speaking well.
Sophism also differed from Greek philosophy by its technique, since although the old philosophy did not exclude empirical observation it was ductive, meaning that once the enlightened one had a general constitutive of the cosmos, he should explain from it the concrete phenomena.
While the sophists tried to gather a lot of reflections of particular facts to draw conclusions, both theoretical and practical, their method being therefore empirical inductive.
Protagoras and socrates were some of the main sophist.
