Im looking for a word that starts with a P.
I want to know the word that starts with a P that means the philosophy of believing that there is no god or devil, that there is no after life, and that the soul dies with you when you die since it's only an idea like other material things. It was a philosophy used in ancient Greece maybe in the Hellenistic era, it might have come from the Roman Empire.... (correct me if im wrong) Can you guess the word???
10 points if you can.
2006-09-23 18:53:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Other - Social Science
Pythagoras??
2006-09-23 19:13:06 · answer #1 · answered by back2skewl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Protagoras
(c.480-411BC)
Philosopher from Thrace who taught in Athens and was a friend of Pericles. He was the first Sophist, and taught grammar, rhetoric as well as the interpretation of poetry.
Protagoras believed nothing was exclusively good or bad, true or false and that man is his own authority, saying that "man is the measure of all things". This has in later times sometimes been misintrepeted. What the philosopher ment was that each man's opinions differ, and what is true for one person can be false for another. Therefore, he concluded, there is no general or objective truth.
2006-09-23 19:07:35 · answer #2 · answered by darkest queen 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have no idea what word you are looking for. These ideas are somewhat similar to the Neo-Platonists of the 3rd century but they recognized the "existence" of an ideal God. Plato himself believed in an afterlife. I must be on the wrong track but I can't think of anything closer.
2006-09-23 19:16:38 · answer #3 · answered by Kuji 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 07:31:11 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Psyche
2006-09-23 19:02:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only guess my friends can come up with is "Philistine" but we don't think that's right ...
2006-09-23 19:19:28 · answer #6 · answered by tigglys 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
?pitiful- i don t know the answer but i will be watching to see-
- an agnostic
2006-09-23 18:57:58 · answer #7 · answered by tbaby 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
pagan
2006-09-23 19:01:02 · answer #8 · answered by cowboy47250 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have me beaten. I have no answer!
2006-09-23 19:01:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
piscatology
2006-09-23 19:00:12 · answer #10 · answered by arkie 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋