Gorgias
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type: Q215627
main interest: Moral relativism
main interests: Ontology
era: Pre-Socratic philosophy
wiki page revision ID: 769529446
comment: Gorgias (/ˈɡɔːrdʒiəs/; Greek: Γοργίας Ancient Greek: [ɡorɡíaːs]; c. 485 – c. 380 BC) was a Greek sophist, Italiote, pre-Socratic philosopher and rhetorician who was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger.
influenced by: Parmenides
type: Person
main interest: Epistemology
type: Q4964182
death date: c. 380 BC
influenced by: Empedocles
influenced by: Zeno of Elea
influences: Empedocles
influenced: Antisthenes
subject: Category:Sophists
birth place: Leontini
type: Agent
main interest: Ontology
wiki page history link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gorgias&action=history
main interests: Epistemology
influenced: Pericles
main interests: Moral relativism
philosophical school: Sophism
subject: Category:Metic philosophers in Classical Athens
subject: Category:380s BC deaths
subject: Category:Presocratic philosophers
birth year: -0485
death year: -0380
subject: Category:Philosophers of nihilism
wiki page revision link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gorgias&oldid=769529446
birth date: c. 485 BC
type: NaturalPerson
main interests: Rhetoric
region: Western philosophy
wiki page ID: 98394
influenced: Plato
subject: Category:Nihilists
abstract: Gorgias (/ˈɡɔːrdʒiəs/; Greek: Γοργίας Ancient Greek: [ɡorɡíaːs]; c. 485 – c. 380 BC) was a Greek sophist, Italiote, pre-Socratic philosopher and rhetorician who was a native of Leontini in Sicily. Along with Protagoras, he forms the first generation of Sophists. Several doxographers report that he was a pupil of Empedocles, although he would only have been a few years younger. "Like other Sophists he was an itinerant, practicing in various cities and giving public exhibitions of his skill at the great pan-Hellenic centers of Olympia and Delphi, and charged fees for his instruction and performances. A special feature of his displays was to invite miscellaneous questions from the audience and give impromptu replies." He has been called "Gorgias the Nihilist" although the degree to which this epithet adequately describes his philosophy is controversial.His chief claim to recognition is that he transplanted rhetoric from his native Sicily to Attica, and contributed to the diffusion of the Attic dialect as the language of literary prose.
subject: Category:5th-century BC philosophers
wiki page out degree: 112
wiki page modified: 2017-03-10T03:18:35Z
influences: Zeno of Elea
influences: Parmenides
name: Gorgias
subject: Category:Ancient Greeks in Thessaly
subject: Category:Ancient Greek rhetoricians
notable ideas: Paradoxologia
type: Q24229398
wiki page edit link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gorgias&action=edit
type: Q5
subject: Category:Sicilian Greeks
subject: Category:480s BC births
school tradition: Sophism
type: Philosopher
type: Thing

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Gorgias
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language: en
contributor: DMacks
primary topic: Gorgias