PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 14

With the paradigm shift,it gives them a leading position in the history of science where in Athens interest was now based individual and place in society.This led evolution of democracy made thick by popular assemblies and the courts of law.And to take part in the democractic project,education became extremely necessary.The Athenians were compelledto master the art of rhetorics as foremost tool to succeed inthis context.Subsequently,then,itinerant mentors,foreign tutors and philosophers popularly known as Sophists,the group that laidan enduring framework to the basis of mordern jurisprudence flockedto Athens and they taught the people for money.They were exponents of the school of skepticism because they were critical of traditional mythology like the natural philosophers but similarly also detested futile ideological speculation.They barely believed that man had enhanced faculty to know the truth about the puzzles of nature,even though answers elsewhere may exist.Given this dubiety,they chose to focus on Man