Antifonte

 Antifonte

Antiphon Antiphon or (Athens or Ramnunte ca. 480 BC -.. 411 BC) was an orator, Greek philosopher and mathematician. There is some controversy over whether or not this Antiphon (Ἀντιφῶν) Ramnunte the Athenian demos (Attica) is the same as "Antiphon the Sophist", who lived in Athens probably in the last two decades of the V century. C. Is the attic orator whose speeches are the oldest of its kind to maintain. He won great reputation writing speeches custom made for that will pronounce others (in Athens were required litigants to defend themselves in person), a trade that was called logographer (meaning "composition in prose" and also appointed the historians) . It preserved the speeches against his stepmother, poisoning, On the Murder of Herodes and About coreuta, plus some rhetorical models, the three Tetralogies. As he noted for the subtlety of their arguments, which rest on the use of evidence, testimony and evidence, as well as in so-called 'plausibility argument'. His literary language, the old attic, and integrates abundant poetismos jonismos. Nor lacks narrative force.

Born into an aristocratic family. He belonged to the Sophist school, maintaining that all is one for λογος, in such a way that nothing exists individually for the senses nor to human knowledge. The world of truth identified with nature and the world of appearance (human) with the false. It was a great rhetorician and author of political speeches. Antiphon was a contemporary of Socrates, whom he must have had long discussions.

So, nature-truth-goodness become the aspiration of man. Similarly, in this aspiration by nature, law, human can be transgressed as it was not true. Defender of the physis against νομος φυσις between the Sophists, viewed the law as an artificial human convention, often contrary to the very nature and harmful. The laws are mutable, as the human will, so justice is subject to fluctuations. So transgression of human law secret does not involve