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Calling Philosophers Names - On the Origin of a Discipline (Hardcover)
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Calling Philosophers Names - On the Origin of a Discipline (Hardcover)
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An original and provocative book 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 word's 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, the book
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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