Calling philosophers names : on the origin of a discipline /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Moore, Christopher (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Philosophy, Ancient > History.
Philosophy > History.
Philosophie ancienne > Histoire.
Philosophie > Histoire.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
Philosophy
Philosophy, Ancient
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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