Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Gorgias/Sophist/Taureck: (~ 485 Leontinoi, Sicily - 376, Thessaly): he was in no conflict with the state power.
He was influenced by the physician and philosopher Empedocles (~ 495 - 435).
In 427, Gorgias was entrusted with an embassy to Athens by his hometown. He won the General Assembly for support against Syracuse.
He had a great influence on the politicians Pericles, Alcibiades and Critias, but also on Thucydides.
Among his pupils was Isocrates, whose attempt at a general consensus-based ethics was temporally better known than Plato's philosophy.
>Change/Gorgias, >Existence/Gorgias, >Logos/Gorgias, >Perception/Gorgias, >Understanding/Gorgias.
>Isocrates, >Sophists.

Additional literature on Gorgias:
Scott Consigny (2001). Gorgias, Sophist and Artist. Columbia SC: University of South Carolina Press.

Additional literature on the sophists:

W. K C. Guthrie, The Sophists, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971.
A. Laks and G. W. Most, Early Greek Philosophy 2016.
Richard Winton. "Herodotus, Thucydides, and the sophists" in: C.Rowe & M.Schofield, The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, Cambridge 2005.
Hermann Diels & Rosamond Kent Sprague (eds.) The Older Sophists a Complete Translation by Several Hands of the Fragments in Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. With a New Ed. Of Antiphon and of Euthydemus. University of South Carolina Press 1972.
John Dillon and Tania Gergel. The Greek Sophists. UK: Penguin Group 2003.