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EBOOK Sayings and Anecdotes:with Other Popular Moralists
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191627392
EAN: 854E3BA6EB
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Stron: 320
Data wydania: 2012
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'many men compete in digging and kicking but no one at all in the pursuit of human        excellence.'Diogenes the Cynic is best remembered today for having lived in a        storage-jar, and walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest        man. Such stories formed part of a rich tradition of sayings and anecdotes; his        biting wit and eccentric behaviour were legendary, and it was by means of these        oft-repeated and embellished aphorisms that his moral teachings were transmitted. He        scorned the conventions of civilized life, and his ascetic lifestyle and caustic        opinions gaveexpression to the Cynic philosophy that in turn influenced        Stoicism.This unique edition also covers Diogenes' immediate successors, such as        Crates, his wife Hipparchia, and the witty moral preacher Bion. The contrasting        teachings of the Cyrenaic school, founded by Aristippos, a pleasure-loving friend of        Socrates, complete the volume, together with a selection of apocryphal letters. An        ideal compendium of Socratic moral philosophy, this entertaining volume opens a        window on to some surprisingly modern attitudes.

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