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1 day ago · Diogenes Laertius states Heraclitus's book "won so great a fame that there arose followers of him called Heracliteans." [a] Scholars took this to mean Heraclitus had no disciples and became renowned only after his death. [136] According to one author, "The school of disciples founded by Heraclitus flourished for long after his death". [137]
1 day ago · Pythagoras of Samos[ a] ( Ancient Greek: Πυθαγόρας; c. 570 – c. 495 BC) [ b] was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism. His political and religious teachings were well known in Magna Graecia and influenced the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and, through them, the West in general.
6 days ago · Democritus famously is said to have surmised “The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space” (Diogenes Laertius 2.453). But then, apparently, a third existent occurs to him, rushing in to fill the space between being and space: [ἄλλα πάντα νϵνομίσθα], “everything else is merely thought to exist,” sometimes rendered “everything else is opinion.”
Jul 30, 2024 · The main Stoic sources are biographer of Greek philosophers Diogenes Laertius (3rd century AD) and Greek philosopher and physician Sextus Empiricus (2nd century-early 3rd century AD). Sextus Empiricus highlighted the importance the Stoics put on the sign as an essential concept in human rationality and a threefold division consisting of the signifier, the signified, and the existent.
2 days ago · Epicurus ( / ˌɛpɪˈkjʊərəs /, EH-pih-KURE-əs; [ 2] Greek: Ἐπίκουρος Epikouros; 341–270 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. He was born on the Greek island of Samos to Athenian parents. Influenced by Democritus, Aristippus, Pyrrho, [ 3] and possibly ...
Aug 9, 2024 · Sophist - Philosophy, Writings, Rhetoric: In addition to their teaching, the Sophists wrote many books, the titles of which are preserved by writers such as Diogenes Laërtius, who probably derived them from library catalogues. It has usually been supposed that the writings themselves hardly survived beyond the period of Plato and Aristotle, but this view requires modification in the light of papyrus finds, admittedly few, that were copied from Sophistic writings in the early Common Era. It ...
Aug 2, 2024 · I consider passages from Diogenes Laertius’ Lives of the Eminent Philosophers to clarify the relationship of homelessness to cosmopolitanism, and draw upon authors such as Emmanuel Levinas, María Lugones, and José Medina in order to demonstrate the fruitfulness of a reconsidered cosmopolitanism in our contemporary context.
