Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres
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- APADiogène Laërce. (n.d.). The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers [Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/diogenes-laertius/the-lives-and-opinions-of-eminent-philosophers
- MLADiogène Laërce. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers [Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/diogenes-laertius/the-lives-and-opinions-of-eminent-philosophers.
- ChicagoDiogène Laërce. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers [Vies et doctrines des philosophes illustres]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/fr/works/diogenes-laertius/the-lives-and-opinions-of-eminent-philosophers.
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De quoi il s'agit
Les vies, doctrines et anecdotes des philosophes grecs, de Thalès à Épicure, avec testaments, lettres et listes d'ouvrages.
Contexte et histoire
Diogène Laërce écrivait vers le IIIe siècle et n'était pas philosophe : c'était un compilateur, et peu critique. Il mêle le fait vérifiable au bon mot et à la rumeur sans le signaler. Il n'en est pas moins irremplaçable, pour une raison gênante : de bien des philosophes antiques il est la SEULE source qui nous soit parvenue. Les trois lettres d'Épicure et les Maximes capitales n'existent que parce qu'il les a copiées ici. Il faut donc le lire en sachant qu'on ne peut souvent le confronter à rien.
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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.…