Euclide de Mégare

Euclide de Mégare (v. 450 av. J. - C. - v. 380 av. J. - C.), was a Philosophe of the ancient Greece of the school Socratique. It is mainly known to have founded the philosophical school of Mégare. It was confused with its homonym, celebrates it mathematician Euclide of Alexandria, by the editors and translators of the Éléments with the Moyen-âge.

Biography

It was born with Mégare, and it is with Athens that he became a disciple of Socrate. After the lawsuit of Socrate, Euclide turns over food to Mégare, where it will allow other disciples of Socrate, frightened, to find asylum. Euclide founds the school of philosophy of Mégare. No writing is known for him.

Its philosophy was a synthesis of the eleatism and Socratisme. It was identified with the Eleatic idea of the a by the idea of the Bien of Socrate. Because these doctrines can contradict empirical reality, they applied logic and the rational reasoning to refute it. The problem of megaric (also called néo-éléates) is to wonder what one can say Être. Can one say another thing which “it is”? The Being cannot be seized by the directions. It is the Good, one, eternal and indivisible. The opposite of the Good is a whole of appearances (which thus do not have an existence) called the non-being. When we have a project, it should be taken care that the object of our desires is the Being and not to appear it.

Euclide de Mégare had three pupils importants : Eubulide de Milète, Ichtyas it second chief of the school of Mégare- and Thrasumakhus de Corinthe, which was the Master of Stilpon, in its turn the Master of Zénon de Citium, founder of the Stoïcisme.

Source

Benson Matt, Stoic Logic .

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