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| Critias: Critias was related to Plato and extensively to Solon. Student of Socrates. Active in politics as an enemy of the Democrats. (See Der Kleine Pauly, Lexikon der Antike, Munich 1979)._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Dictionary of Arguments. | |||
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B. H. F. Taureck on Critias - Dictionary of Arguments
I 19 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. >Religious belief/Ancient Philosophy. I 20 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. Cf. >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._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. "Vs" indicates differences in content, not necessarily the chronological progression of a controversy. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Taureck I B. H.F. Taureck Die Sophisten Hamburg 1995 |
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