Calling Philosophers Names: On the Origin of a Discipline pdf

Christopher Moore est l'auteur de quinze romans, dont les best-sellers internationaux, Lamb, A Dirty Job et You Suck. Son dernier roman, Secondhand Souls, sortira en août 2015.

Chris est né à Toledo, Ohio et a grandi à Mansfield, Ohio. Son père était patrouilleur routier et sa mère vendait du gros électroménager dans un grand magasin. Il a fréquenté l'Ohio State University et le Brooks Institute of Photography à Santa Barbara. Il a déménagé en Californie à l'âge de 19 ans et a vécu sur la côte centrale jusqu'en 2003, date à laquelle il a déménagé à Hawaï.

Avant de publier son premier roman, Practical Demonkeeping en 1992, il a travaillé comme couvreur, commis d'épicerie, vérificateur de nuit d'hôtel et courtier d'assurance, serveur, photographe et DJ rock and roll. Chris s'est appuyé sur toutes ces expériences de travail pour créer les personnages de ses livres. Lorsqu'il n'écrit pas, Chris aime le kayak de mer, la plongée sous-marine, la photographie et la peinture à l'acrylique et à l'huile. Il vit à San Fransisco.

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