Description: Calling Philosophers Names : On the Origin of a Discipline, Hardcover by Moore, Christopher, ISBN 0691195056, ISBN-13 9780691195056, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
An original and provocativ that illuminates the origins of philosophy in ancient Greece by revealing the surprising early meanings of the word "philosopher"
Calling Philosophers Names provides a groundbreaking account of the origins of the term philosophos or "philosopher" in ancient Greece. Tracing the evolution of the words meaning over its first two centuries, Christopher Moore shows how it first referred to aspiring political sages and advice-givers, then to avid conversationalists about virtue, and finally to investigators who focused on the scope and conditions of those conversations. Questioning the familiar view that philosophers from the beginning "loved wisdom" or merely "cultivated their intellect," Moore shows that they were instead mocked as laughably unrealistic for thinking that their incessant talking and study would earn them social status or political and moral authority.
Taking a new approach to the history of early Greek philosophy, Calling Philosophers Names seeks to understand who were called philosophoi or "philosophers" and why, and how the use of and reflections on the word contributed to the rise of a discipline. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, th demonstrates that a word that began in part as a wry reference to a far-flung political bloc came, hardly a century later, to mean a life of determined self-improvement based on research, reflection, and deliberation. Early philosophy dedicated itself to justifying its own dubious-seeming enterprise. And this original impulse to seek legitimacy holds novel implications for understanding the history of the discipline and its influence.
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Book Title: Calling Philosophers Names : on the Origin of a Discipline
Number of Pages: 440 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: History & Surveys / General, Ancient / Greece, General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy, History
Item Weight: 27.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Christopher Moore
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
