Gorgias
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Gorgias | |
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Born | 485 BC Leontini |
Died | 380 BC |
Era | Pre-Socratic filosofie |
Region | Wastren filosofie |
Schuil | Sophism |
Main interests | Ontology, epistemology rhetoric, moral relativism |
Notable ideas | Paradoxologia |
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Gorgias (/ˈɡɔːrdʒiəs/; Greek: Γοργίας, [ɡorɡíaːs]; c. 485 – c. 380 BC[1]) wis a Greek sophist, Italiote, pre-Socratic filosofer an rhetorician who wis a native o Leontini in Sicily. Alang wi Protagoras, he forms the first generation o Sophists.
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- ↑ Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3rd. ed. s.v. "Gorgias" (Oxford, 1996)