Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline pdf

Christopher Moore es autor de quince novelas, incluidos los bestsellers internacionales Lamb, A Dirty Job y You Suck. Su última novela, Secondhand Souls, se publicará en agosto de 2015.

Chris nació en Toledo, Ohio y creció en Mansfield, Ohio. Su padre era patrullero de caminos y su madre vendía electrodomésticos grandes en una tienda por departamentos. Asistió a la Universidad Estatal de Ohio y al Instituto de Fotografía Brooks en Santa Bárbara. Se mudó a California cuando tenía 19 años y vivió en la costa central hasta 2003, cuando se mudó a Hawái.

Antes de publicar su primera novela, Practical Demonkeeping en 1992, trabajó como techador, empleado de supermercado, auditor nocturno de hotel y corredor de seguros, mesero, fotógrafo y DJ de rock and roll. Chris se ha basado en todas estas experiencias laborales para crear los personajes de sus libros. Cuando no está escribiendo, Chris disfruta del kayak en el océano, el buceo, la fotografía y la pintura con acrílicos y óleos. Vive en San Francisco.

Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline pdf por 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.