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History
This is a reproduction of a classic text optimised for kindle devices. We have endeavoured to create this version as close to the original artefact as possible. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with... See More
History
This is a reproduction of a classic text optimised for kindle devices. We have endeavoured to create this version as close to the original artefact as possible. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Diogenes Laertius' compendium on the lives and doctrines of Greek and Italian philosophers ranges over three centuries, from Thales to Epicurus, carefully compiled from hundreds of sources and enriched with numerous... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"Happiness depends upon ourselves." - Aristotle. Just as the Stoics were named for the stoa or porch in Athens where they congregated, the Peripatetic school - known in its day simply as the Peripatos - took its moniker... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
"The truth is hypothetical." Scepticism (or skepticism), the belief that requires all information to be well supported by evidence, originated in the Skeptikoi, a first century BC Greek school who "asserted nothing." The... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a... See More
History
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." - Socrates. Aristippus of Cyrene, Epitimedes, Hegesias the Death Persuader, Dionysius the Renegade and Theodorus the Atheist were the leading lights of The Cyrenaics, an early... See More
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"I would rather go mad than feel pleasure." - Antisthenes. For Cynics the secret to happiness was living a life of virtue in harmony with Nature with only the bare essentials necessary for survival. They rejected... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
In The Stoics Diogenes Laërtius details the lives and philosophical opinions of the first Greek Stoic philosophers: Zeno of Citium Ariston of Chios Herillus of Carthage Dionysius the Renegade Cleanthes of Assos Sphaerus... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
Diogenes Laërtius, author of the following biographical work, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, flourished in the early 3rd century. Little or nothing is known about the author's life, but his work is... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
This handbook contains the lives, writings, and doctrines of the Cyrenaic school by compiling together the primary sources of the material. It is not a summary or analysis of the Cyrenaic school. Rather it provides all of... See More
Diogenes of Sinope is undoubtedly the most well-known Cynic philosopher from antiquity. We possess no direct writings from Diogenes himself, thus his legacy has been left for others to construct and discuss over the... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
An extensive collection of the essential writings of ancient Stoicism and Epicureanism. Contains the Discourses and Enchiridion (handbook, manual) of Epictetus; Seneca's On Providence, On the Shortness of Life, On the... See More
Politics & Social Sciences
The tales of Diogenes, the Great Cynic Philosopher have delighted and enlightened all who have been fortunate enough to read of his deeds. Diogenes originated the then revolutionary concept of cosmopolitanism, insulted and... See More
Politics & Social SciencesSTOICS, a school of philosophers founded at the close of the 4th century b.c. by Zeno of Citium, and so called from the Stoa or painted corridor (???? ???????) on the north side of the market-place at Athens, which, after... See More
Biographies & MemoirsMuch of what we know about the ancient Greek philosophers is contained in this collection of biographies written by Diogenes Laertius around the 4th century AD. Spanning the three centuries of wisdom's golden age, we begin... See More
• Annotated with suggested readings and a biography of the author. • Illustrated with depictions of several philosophers in ancient, medieval, renaissance, and modern art. A perfect introduction to ancient philosophy... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
Originally written in Greek sometime in the 3rd century, "Lives of the Eminent Philosophers" is the historically significant collection of biographies of important Greek philosophers by Diogenes Laertius. Little is known... See More