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Description:Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering 12-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow.The rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes, that generations of Western readers have consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since 'LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS', first compiled in the AD third century, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day, it remains a crucial for much of what what we know about the origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece, covering a longer period of time and a larger number of figures - from Pythagoras and Socrates to Aristotle and Epicurus - than any other ancient source.'LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS' Includes:Bks 1-7: Ionian Philosophy Bk 1: The Seven Sages Thales, Solon, Chilon, Pittacus, Bias, Cleobulus, Periander, Anacharsis, Myson, Epimenides, Pherecydes Bk 2: Socrates, predecessors & followers Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Archelaus, Socrates, Xenophon, Aeschines, Aristippus, Phaedo, Euclides, Stilpo, Crito, Simon, Glaucon, Simmias, Cebes, Menedemus of Eretria Bk 3: Plato Bk 4: The Academy Speusippus, Xenocrates, Polemo, Crates of Athens, Crantor, Arcesilaus, Bion, Lacydes, Carneades, Clitomachus Bk 5: Peripatetics Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strato, Lyco, Demetrius, Heraclides Bk 6: Cynics Antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope, Monimus, Onesicritus, Crates of Thebes, Metrocles, Hipparchia, Menippus, Menedemus Bk 7: Stoics Zeno of Citium, Aristo, Herillus, Dionysius, Cleanthes, Sphaerus, Chrysippus Bks 8-10: Italian Philosophy Bk 8: Pythagoreans Pythagoras, Empedocles, Epicharmus, Archytas, Alcmaeon, Hippasus, Philolaus, Eudoxus Bk 9: Uncategorized: Eleatics, Atomists, Skeptics etc. Heraclitus, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Melissus, Zeno of Elea, Leucippus, Democritus, Protagoras, Diogenes of Apollonia, Anaxarchus, Pyrrho, Timon Bk 10: EpicurusRUNNING TIME ❥ 28mins. and 33mins.©2018 Oxford University Press (P)2018 TantorWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. To get started finding Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering 12-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow.The rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes, that generations of Western readers have consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since 'LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS', first compiled in the AD third century, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day, it remains a crucial for much of what what we know about the origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece, covering a longer period of time and a larger number of figures - from Pythagoras and Socrates to Aristotle and Epicurus - than any other ancient source.'LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS' Includes:Bks 1-7: Ionian Philosophy Bk 1: The Seven Sages Thales, Solon, Chilon, Pittacus, Bias, Cleobulus, Periander, Anacharsis, Myson, Epimenides, Pherecydes Bk 2: Socrates, predecessors & followers Anaximander, Anaximenes, Anaxagoras, Archelaus, Socrates, Xenophon, Aeschines, Aristippus, Phaedo, Euclides, Stilpo, Crito, Simon, Glaucon, Simmias, Cebes, Menedemus of Eretria Bk 3: Plato Bk 4: The Academy Speusippus, Xenocrates, Polemo, Crates of Athens, Crantor, Arcesilaus, Bion, Lacydes, Carneades, Clitomachus Bk 5: Peripatetics Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strato, Lyco, Demetrius, Heraclides Bk 6: Cynics Antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope, Monimus, Onesicritus, Crates of Thebes, Metrocles, Hipparchia, Menippus, Menedemus Bk 7: Stoics Zeno of Citium, Aristo, Herillus, Dionysius, Cleanthes, Sphaerus, Chrysippus Bks 8-10: Italian Philosophy Bk 8: Pythagoreans Pythagoras, Empedocles, Epicharmus, Archytas, Alcmaeon, Hippasus, Philolaus, Eudoxus Bk 9: Uncategorized: Eleatics, Atomists, Skeptics etc. Heraclitus, Xenophanes, Parmenides, Melissus, Zeno of Elea, Leucippus, Democritus, Protagoras, Diogenes of Apollonia, Anaxarchus, Pyrrho, Timon Bk 10: EpicurusRUNNING TIME ❥ 28mins. and 33mins.©2018 Oxford University Press (P)2018 TantorWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Lives of the Eminent Philosophers. To get started finding Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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