Gorgias

Japanese: ゴルギアス(英語表記)Gorgias
Gorgias
Born around 483 BC. Leontini, Sicily.
[Died] c. 376 BC. Thessaly, Larissa. A leading Greek sophist and orator. During the Peloponnesian War, he traveled to Athens as the representative of a diplomatic mission from his hometown, which was under pressure from Syracuse, to ask for help (427 BC). Later, he returned to Greece and became a teacher of rhetoric, settling there permanently. His surviving rhetorical works include Helenēs enkōmion and Palamēdēs. His lost philosophical work Peri physeōs heē peri tou mē ontos (On Nature, or What Does Not Exist) is an attempt to prove that "nothing exists, and if it does exist, we cannot know it, and even if we could know it, we could not communicate our knowledge to others." He appears in Plato's Gorgias, where his flashy and pedantic manner is mockingly described.

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Japanese:
[生]前483頃.シチリア,レオンティニ
[没]前376頃.テッサリ,ラリッサ
ギリシアの代表的ソフィスト,弁論家。ペロポネソス戦争中,シラクサに圧迫されていた故郷の町の外交使節の代表として,アテネへおもむいて救援を求めた (前 427) 。のち再びギリシアを訪れ弁論術の教師となって永住。現存する弁論術の著書に『ヘレネ論』 Helenēs enkōmion,『パラメデス論』 Palamēdēsがある。また失われた哲学上の著作として『自然について,あるいは存在せぬものについて』 Peri physeōs hē peri tou mē ontosがあり,ゴルギアスはそのなかで「何も存在しない,もし存在するとしてもわれわれはそれを知ることができない,またかりに知ることができたとしてもわれわれの知識を他人に伝えることができない」ということを証明しようとした。プラトンの『ゴルギアス』に登場,その派手で衒学的な様子が嘲笑的に語られている。

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