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1 day ago · The main source for the life of Heraclitus is the doxographer Diogenes Laërtius.
4 days ago · "knowledge, theories of" published on by Oxford University Press.
2 days ago · Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers 5.2: Theophrastus 41-42 “[Theophrastus] died an old man, eighty-five years old, when he had recently retired. And this is my epigram about him: This saying was never uttered to any mortal untrue: Wisdom’s bow breaks when it is left unused As long as he worked, Theophrastus was well But…
2 days ago · Footnote 59 Diogenes Laertius includes him in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers where he conjures up a blunt truth-talking Scythian who often pretended not to understand the frivolities and inconsistencies of Greek life.
4 days ago · - Diogenes Laertius, Life of Pyrrho, 106 A primitive version of the idea can even be found in the Delphic Maxims - which are among the earliest Greek wisdom literature. One maxim says, “control yourself;” another says, “do not trust fortune.”
4 days ago · According to Alexander Polyhistor, quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, his actual name was Aristocles, son of Ariston, of the deme (suburb) Collytus, in Athens. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and student Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of philosophy.
4 days ago · The apostle and philosopher are most closely akin at their respective trials. A number of Greek accounts of Socrates are set in an Athenian prison, and in the first century he was perhaps best known, as Diogenes Laertius puts it, as “the first philosopher who was condemned to death and executed.”
