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Calling Philosophers Names : On the Origin of a Discipline /

Provides a groundbreaking account of the origins of the term philosophos or "philosopher" in ancient Greece. Tracing the evolution of the word's meaning over its first two centuries, Christopher Moore shows how it first referred to aspiring political sages and advice-givers, then to a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Moore, Christopher (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the origins of Philosophia
  • Origins. Heraclitus against the Philosophoi
  • What Philosophos could have meant : a lexical account
  • Pythagoreans as Philosophoi
  • Development. Fifth-Century Philosophoi
  • Socrates's prosecution as Philosophos
  • Non-academic Philosophia
  • Academy. Plato's saving of the appearances
  • Aristotle's historiography of Philosophia
  • Ambivalence about Philosophia beyond the discipline
  • Epilogue. Contemporary philosophy and the history of the discipline.