Editing Sophist (section)

===Lycophron===
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Lycophron is mentioned as a sophist by Aristotle, and was probably among the students of [[Gorgias]].<ref name="Menake">Quarles (2004), pp. 135–136</ref> He rejected the supposed value of an [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocratic birth]],<ref name="Menake"/> claiming that "Now the nobility of good birth is obscure, and its grandeur a matter of words."<ref name="Menake"/> meaning that there is no factual difference between those well-born and those low-born; only words and opinion assign value to these different circumstances of birth.<ref name="Diels">Diels, Dent Sprague (2001), pp. 68–69</ref> This statement may indicate that Lycophron shared the beliefs of [[Antiphon (orator)|Antiphon]], that (regardless of their ancestry) both [[Greeks]] and [[barbarian]]s are born with the same capacities: An [[Egalitarianism|egalitarian]] belief that was a minority view in the 5th century BCE.<ref name="Menake"/><ref>quoted in Mario Untersteiner, The Sophists, tr. [[Kathleen Freeman (classicist)|Kathleen Freeman]] (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1954), p. 252</ref> He is also known for his statement (reproduced by Aristotle, in the latter's ''Politics'', 1280b10), that "[[law]] is only a convention, a surety to another of justice".,<ref name="Mulgan">Mulgan (1979), pp. 121–128</ref> also translated as "a guarantor of men's rights against one another". He, thus, believed that law is a matter of agreement, a [[Convention (norm)|social convention]] and not a natural or universal standard (there is no evidence that Lycophron rejected the idea that law is a universal standard – indeed his view appears far more universalist than that of Aristotle, in that Lycophron proposes a single standard, what would now be called the non aggression principle, in relation to all states). In this respect his views on law are similar to those of [[Protagoras]].<ref name="Menake"/><ref name="Menake2">Quarles (2004), pp. 121–122</ref> This means that he treats law as a mere means, in the context of a (perhaps primitive) [[social contract]] theory, without considering it as something special, in contradistinction to, e.g., [[Plato]] but similar to both [[Thrasymachus]] and [[Callicles]], albeit that their theories have – as far as can be ascertained from the information available about them – more specific characteristics.<ref name="Mulgan"/>
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===Prodicus===
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===Thrasymachus===
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===Hippias===
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===Antiphon the Sophist===
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===Anonymous Sophists===
====Quoted by Iamblichus====
====Author of ''Dissoi Logoi''====
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