![]() ![]() Some of the stories which follow are so much alike that it is charitable to suppose that Laertius drew from more than one collection of the sayings of Diogenes. and Satyrus in the fourth book of his Lives, allege that Diogenes left nothing in writing. Encyclopaedia Britannica, entry on “ Diogenes Laërtius” online edition, accessed February 2021. There Xeniades once asked him how he wished to be buried. Note that the USA changes to daylight saving time from March 14-Europe will be switching to daylight saving on March 28-please check the meeting time for your local timezone. We will start and continue discussion in the forum, and will meet via Zoom on Tuesday, March 30 at 11 a.m. The Greek text is available online at Perseus for those who would like to take a look. In a Spanish translation by Joseph Ortiz y Sanz Yonge can be read online or downloaded from įor those who would prefer to listen, there is an audio version of the translation by Pamela Mensch available to download from in Apple Audiobook format (.m4b).Īnd LibriVox has Book 6 (the Cynics) available to listen online or download: Hicks is available online:Īnd can be read online or downloaded from We will all read the chapter on Socrates from Book 2, Chapter 5, and you can choose to read about any other philosopher(s) you wish depending on your interests.ĭiogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers Though he quoted hundreds of authorities, he knew most of them only by second hand his true sources have not been ascertained except in a few cases.Įncyclopaedia Britannica, entry on “Diogenes Laërtius” The work is a compilation, the excerpts of which range from insignificant gossip to valuable biographical and bibliographical information, competent summaries of doctrines, and reproductions of significant documents such as wills or philosophical writings. One of its traditional titles … (“Lives, Teachings, and Sayings of Famous Philosophers”), indicates its great scope. This month’s Book Club selection continues our biographical theme, with Diogenes Laertius Lives of Eminent Philosophers.ĭiogenes Laërtius, (flourished 3rd century CE), Greek author noted for his history of Greek philosophy, the most important existing secondary source of knowledge in the field. … It remains to speak of the philosophers themselves…īook 1: “Prologue,” selections from sections 12, 13, 16, 18, 20, 21, translation by R.D. … So much for the beginnings of philosophy, its subsequent developments, its various parts, and the number of the philosophic sects. ![]() … some philosophers left writings behind them, while others wrote nothing at all … Philosophy has three parts, physics, ethics, and dialectic or logic. … But philosophy, the pursuit of wisdom, has had a twofold origin it started with Anaximander on the one hand, with Pythagoras on the other. Sophists was another name for the wise men, and not only for philosophers but for the poets also. … All too quickly the study was called wisdom and its professor a sage, to denote his attainment of mental perfection while the student who took it up was a philosopher or lover of wisdom. The first to use the term, and to call himself a philosopher or lover of wisdom, was Pythagoras for, said he, no man is wise, but a god alone. ![]()
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