The chief philosophical contribution of the Sophists in environmental discussions was:

a. the contention that money and politics, rather than the Greek gods,
moved the world of everyday life.
b. the role of self-interest in all human affairs.
c. moral order is based on nothing more than convention, in other words,
morality is a con game.
d. proof that Plato and Aristotle were wrong.


a. the contention that money and politics, rather than the Greek gods,
moved the world of everyday life.

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