- SOPHISTS
- wandering teachers of RHETORIC and PHILOSOPHY in the Greaco-Roman world. They rejected all RELIGION and gave rationalistic explanations to natural phenomena upholding ETHICAL and SOCIAL RELATIVISM.
Concise dictionary of Religion. 2012.
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