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Calling philosophers names : on the origin of a discipline

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Calling philosophers names : on the origin of a discipline

Call No. (NDL)
HC5-D2
Bibliographic ID of National Diet Library
029934692
Material type
図書
Author
Christopher Moore.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication date
[2020]
Material Format
Paper
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xix, 411 pages ; 25 cm
NDC
-
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Material Type
図書
ISBN
9780691195056 hardcover
0691195056 hardcover
Author/Editor
Christopher Moore.
Publication Date
[2020]
著作権日付 : ©2020
Publication Date (W3CDTF)
2020
Extent
xix, 411 pages
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maps
Size
25 cm
Place of Publication (Country Code)
US
Text Language Code
eng
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Content Type
text
Media Type
unmediated
Carrier Type
volume
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NDLC
Target Audience
一般
Note (Content)
"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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Includes bbliographical reference and indexes.
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国立国会図書館
Call No.
HC5-D2
Data Provider (Database)
国立国会図書館 : 国立国会図書館蔵書
Bibliographic ID (NDL)
029934692
Cataloging Rule
RDA
Bibliographic Record Category (NDL)
211