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Critias/Sophist/Taureck: (~ 455 - 403). Critias was an uncle of Plato and student of Socrates and Gorgias.
Thesis: The fear of the gods has been invented by the humans themselves, to prevent others from doing something evil in secret.
He departed from the other Sophists.
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Religious belief/Ancient Philosophy.
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Biography: Critias was leader of the "30 tyrants" (8 months of reign of terror). He was the son of an aristocratic family, he was responsible for condemning some 1500 democratically-minded citizens of Athens to be killed by poison.
Critias occurs in different dialogues by Plato.
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Plato, >
Socrates, >
Gorgias, >
Sophists.
Additional literture on Critias:
Kathleen Freeman (1948). Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A complete translation of the Fragments in Diels, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
Thomas G. Rosenmeyer (1949). "The Family of Critias". In: American Journal of Philology. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 70 (4): 404–410. doi:10.2307/291107. JSTOR 291107.
Additional literture 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.