Plato called Protagoras the first of these people, who claimed to teach virtue and came under criticism for charging money and teaching deceptive reasoning.
In a polemic against these people, Isocrates  (eye-SOCK-rah-teez)  criticized them for claiming art could be created through simple rules. In a work titled for this kind of person, the Stranger compares these people to fishermen and defines them through a series of divisions. One of these people named Callicles argued that the "law of nature" is superior to conventional morality, which allows the weak to enslave the strong. Against a group of these people, Socrates argued that (*)  rhetoric without philosophy is devoid of morality in Plato's  Gorgias . Plato called Protagoras the first of these people, who claimed to teach virtue and came under criticism for charging money and teaching deceptive reasoning. For 10 points, name these ancient thinkers whose name comes from the Greek for wisdom.
In a polemic against these people, Isocrates  (eye-SOCK-rah-teez)  criticized them for claiming art could be created through simple rules.
sophists