After you have read about the Sophists and…

After you have read about the Sophists and…

After you have read about the Sophists and Sextus Empiricus’ arguments

for why true, objective knowledge about the world is impossible, where do you see “Sophists” today? Provide an example (a person experience, event, court case, news article) where someone behaved like a Sophist or took a skeptical position on an issue. Keep in mind, most people who do this are neither philosophical nor do they always know they are being skeptical. Further, on what issues do people tend to have the most skepticism that “objective knowledge” (knowledge true and applicable to all people) is possible?
Hint: Remember, the Sophists and Sextus Empiricus ( who came later and was a pure skeptic about knowledge), at the very least believe that “knowledge is relative” — that an issue “may be true for you, but not true for me,” that things are “in the eye of the beholder,” that customs, perspective, background, etc. all make truth different for, or even unique to each person. Consider the informal ways in which people deny objectivity, certainty, and true knowledge and take the skeptic path.