Calling philosophers names : on the origin of a discipline /

Calling Philosophers Names 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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moore, Christopher (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: The Origins of Philosophia
  • Origins: Chapter 2. Heraclitus against the Philosophoi
  • Chapter 3. What Philosophos Could Have Meant: A Lexical Account
  • Chapter 4. Pythagoreans as Philosophoi
  • Development: Chapter 5. Fifth-Century Philosophoi
  • Chapter 6. Socrates's Prosecution as Philosophos
  • Chapter 7. Non-Academic Philosophia
  • Academy: Chapter 8. Plato's Saving of the Appearances
  • Chapter 9. Aristotle's Historiography of Philosophia
  • Chapter 10. Ambivalence about Philosophia beyond the Discipline
  • Epilogue: Contemporary Philosophy and the History of the Discipline.