Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres
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- APADiógenes Laercio. (n.d.). The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers [Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/diogenes-laertius/the-lives-and-opinions-of-eminent-philosophers
- MLADiógenes Laercio. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers [Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/diogenes-laertius/the-lives-and-opinions-of-eminent-philosophers.
- ChicagoDiógenes Laercio. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers [Vidas y opiniones de los filósofos ilustres]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/diogenes-laertius/the-lives-and-opinions-of-eminent-philosophers.
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De qué trata
Las vidas, doctrinas y anécdotas de los filósofos griegos, de Tales hasta Epicuro, con testamentos, cartas y listas de obras.
Contexto e historia
Diógenes Laercio escribía hacia el siglo III y no era filósofo: era un compilador, y no muy crítico. Mezcla el dato verificable con el chiste y el rumor sin advertirlo. Pese a ello es insustituible, y por una razón incómoda: de muchos filósofos antiguos es la ÚNICA fuente que nos ha llegado. Las tres cartas de Epicuro y las máximas capitales solo existen porque las copió aquí. Hay que leerlo, pues, sabiendo que a menudo no puede contrastarse con nada.
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IX. Now these were they who were accounted wise men. Thales, Solon, Periander, Cleobulus, Chilo, Bias, Pittacus. To these men add Anacharsis the Scythian, Myson the Chenean, Pherecydes the Syrian, and Epimenides the Cretan; and some add, Pisistratus, the tyrant: These then are they who were called the wise men. X. But of Philosophy there arose two schools. One derived from Anaximander, the other from Pythagoras. Now, Thales had been the preceptor of Anaximander, and Pherecydes of Pythagoras. And the one school was called the Ionian, because Thales, being an Ionian (for he was a native of Miletus), had been the tutor of Anaximander;—but the other was called the Italian from Pythagoras, because he spent the chief part of his life in Italy. And the Ionic school ends with Clitomachus, and Chrysippus, and Theophrastus; and the Italian one with Epicurus; for Anaximander succeeded Thales, and he was succeeded again by Anaximenes, and he by Anaxagoras, and he by Archelaus, who was the master of Socrates, who was the originator of moral philosophy. And he was the master of the sect of the Socratic philosophers, and of Plato, who was the founder of the old Academy; and Plato’s pupils were Speusippus and Xenocrates; and Polemo was the pupil of Xenocrates, and Crantor and Crates of Polemo. Crates again was the master of Arcesilaus, the founder of the Middle Academy, and his pupil was Lacydes, who gave the new Academy its distinctive principles. His pupil was Carneades, and he in his turn was the master of Clitomachus. And this school ends in this way with Clitomachus and Chrysippus. Antisthenes was the pupil of Socrates, and the master of Diogenes the Cynic; and the pupil of Diogenes was Crates the Theban; Zeno the Cittiæan was his; Cleanthes was his; Chrysippus was his.…