Euclid of Megara
Greek philosopher (c. 435 - c. 365 BC) · Academics · Lived 436 BC to 365 BC · aged 71
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Something wrong?A student at Socrates' deathbed who went on to argue that goodness was the only thing truly real - one, eternal, and without opposite - and spent centuries getting confused with the geometry guy.
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Euclid studied under Socrates in the late 5th century BC and was there when his teacher died. Afterward, he founded the Megarian school and built a philosophy around a single unshakable claim: the supreme good is one thing, eternal and unchangeable, and nothing contrary to it exists. For over a thousand years, medieval scholars mixed him up with Euclid of Alexandria, the mathematician, when copying and translating the Elements - a case of mistaken identity that outlasted the philosophy itself.
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