The Sophists Philosophical quest: a key factor for the advancement of modern knowledge. Introduction . The dominant views about the sophist in the history of Philosophy always tend to placed them at a negative stand. For instance, Socrates and Plato provided a negative critique of the Sophist, they said that "the Sophist overemphasized the accidental subjective and personal elements in knowledge and conduct" Though the term Sophist originally meant "those who are wise" but it is always believe that they later employed specious argument or reasoning or who lacked a sense of social responsibility and were deceptive in making the worse appear the better cause. Aristotle also complained that the training provided by sophist such as Protagoras was a "fraud" because it taught the skill of "making the worse argument seems the better". All this accusation may cause young minds in the line of Philosophy to ask "what really was the major cont...