Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline PDF

Christopher Moore ist Autor von fünfzehn Romanen, darunter die internationalen Bestseller Lamb, A Dirty Job und You Suck. Sein neuester Roman Secondhand Souls erscheint im August 2015.

Chris wurde in Toledo, Ohio, geboren und wuchs in Mansfield, Ohio, auf. Sein Vater war Autobahnpolizist und seine Mutter verkaufte Großgeräte in einem Kaufhaus. Er besuchte die Ohio State University und das Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara. Mit 19 Jahren zog er nach Kalifornien und lebte bis 2003 an der Central Coast, als er nach Hawaii zog.

Bevor er 1992 seinen ersten Roman „Practical Demonkeeping“ veröffentlichte, arbeitete er als Dachdecker, Lebensmittelkaufmann, Hotel-Nachtprüfer, Versicherungsmakler, Kellner, Fotograf und Rock’n’Roll-DJ. Chris hat auf all diese Arbeitserfahrungen zurückgegriffen, um die Charaktere in seinen Büchern zu erschaffen. Wenn er nicht schreibt, fährt Chris gerne im Ozean Kajak, taucht, fotografiert und malt mit Acryl- und Ölfarben. Er lebt in San Francisco.

Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline pdf von Christopher Moore

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.