Abstract
Hegel's treatment of the Sophists challenged the centuries‐old characterization of them as fraudulent intellectuals. Though he “rehabilitated” Protagoras, Gorgias, and others, however, he also domesticated sophistical rhetoric, divesting it of its capacity to shape the public sphere. The effect of Hegel's historical analysis was to characterize Sophistic rhetoric as speculative philosophy. Thus his attempt to “normalize” the Sophists functioned more to render their rhetoric impotent.
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