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Fernando Báez (Merida, Venezuela)
Read Diogenes Laertius is one of my bad habits. There are others, of course, but this in particular I've spent several years it is not little. I confess I hate formal and traditional readings and this trend has led me to feel the fascination of some works never reviewed or in any case, marginalized. The Lives of the most famous Greek philosophers "of Laertius, in particular, considered mediocre and pointless, always has given me an inexplicable happiness. I have four versions (Greek, Latin, English and Castilian) of any re-reading this book and I was discouraged. I remember Alfonso Reyes, in a bizarre trial, called it an author "as indispensable as useless." But that reasoning can be taken as soon as he attempts to define. By this I express my disagreement with those who have seen Laertius an informant and not a mere writer. There can certainly be compared to Plutarch. There is no parallel as possible. In part because it lacks the structural view of this and rigorous style. Its purpose is not idealized models, seeks to provide the details to invite the attention of a particular thinker. Not chronological, describing a life and look for traces at the edge of every vice and virtue. But, as pointed out by R. Genaille, his "testimony ..., similar to those of Lucian, Aristophanes, Thucydides, the ancient Greeks restores a normal character of humanity as opposed to those who just want to see them as supermen ...". Perhaps this is what brings me closer to his work. I am not satisfied with the portrait of Socrates, Plato did or Xenophon: I enjoy the Laertius and of Aristophanes' Clouds. " In his "Lives" Laertius gives grace the pages of a story unavoidable to rescue the above scholarship. Against the story itself, against the hermeneutics of philosophical discourse, from the genealogy, their intention is to entertain and inform with precision and pleasure. Socrates, for example, says: "Having been injured for a second time his wife, Xanthippe, and then water over arrojádole replied," Did I not say that when it was raining Xanthippe thunder? "." Humor is a very characteristic guidance signal of exposure as the indiscretion. Bion of Borysthenes said: "I used to take for some young children to be abused in her luxury ...".
Life of Diogenes (also "de") Laertius, however, is invented. As Suidas, Ateneo de Naucratis or Hesychius of Miletus, partially rescued the memory erasing his past. R. Hope says that all feature his is a paradox: a doxographer no doubt confused by hasty readings, a poet impressed by the philosophy and metrics, a daring reporter (forgive the neologism bold) of the nonsense in the world of philosophers, a tireless reader defeated by his own scholarship, a writer who combines the topos Uranus Plato with public masturbation Diogenes of Sinope. At this point we do not have data worth yours and we can not predispose or cheer, which, of course, luck can be a factor as much as perverse. Marcel Schwob had not asked for more time to write his biography.
Almost unanimously confirmed that lived between ages 2 and 3 BC Without evidence, we suspect he was born in a city of Cilicia. We do not know who his parents. Has not been determined in which military or philosophical trend which was his profession. Carlos García Gual considered him a follower of Epicurus: "As representatives of Epicureanism de los siglos II y III de nuestra era, están Diógenes de Enoanda, al que conocemos porque su entusiasmo por Epicuro llegó a tanto que mandó grabar en las columnas de la plaza del mercado de Enoanda, para que todos pudieran leerlas, inscripciones pertenecientes a la física y a la moral de Epicuro, y Dógenes Laercio, que a comienzos del siglo III redacta la erduita historia de la filosofía griega...". Con menor fundamento algunos ensayistas lo identifican como un miembro del neoplatonismo. Otros lo acercan al escepticismo. En lo personal, discrepo absolutamente de semejantes posiciones: seis o siete relecturas de su obra me llevan a creer que fue un noble perteneciente a un círculo de eclécticos, lector voraz antes que seguidor a philosophical position and perhaps a vague prestige poet philosophy found a place of comfort and motivation. Love, prepared, according to the gossips, who are always there, to a woman named Arria, their Lives and judgments of the most important Greek philosophers, "or, according to another version," Lives of the most famous Greek philosophers. " This occurred between 225 and 250 AD. Metric to show off their knowledge, allowed the dissemination of "Panmetro" poems in which he boasted of all styles metric used by the great classics and demonstrated the technique in the hands of a bad poet, is a subterfuge that exhausts all forms there is not move the reader. In one of his epigrams, dedicated to Anaxagoras, said:
"That the Sun is burning mass
Anaxagoras said, and therefore
was sentenced to death.
What Pericles delivered his disciple:
but he learned from languor,
know let life volunteer. "
I have on hand the trials of E. Schwarz, RD Hicks, Arnaldo Momigliano, Antonio Alegre Gorri and others on Diogenes Laertius and his "Lives of the most famous Greek philosophers." Brilliant, tireless, intense, concise, above. It would be an honor, indeed, share their observations, but I want to convey, to the extent that is possible, a personal version of a book that does not hesitate to call classic. I'm interested too to avail myself of the voice of others to explain. What continues to worry me to read, to put it bluntly, is its uneven: I suspect that was not written originally as a single book. Moreover, there is a phrase, for a woman, in Book III, which makes me believe that the text around Plato was the first of the series: "And you, quite rightly, a lover of Plato, and askest with great diligence the dogmas of the philosopher, I have had for inexcusable write about the nature of his style, the order of the dialogues and the series of his doctrine, in my power to reach, touching all elementary and summarily, so as not to lack a sufficient notice of his life and work ...". This unusual and dislocated prologue of the scenes will surely love this short, had to leave the idea of \u200b\u200ba kind biographical dictionary of the history of the philosophy of his time, which was not new to his contemporaries.
No impartial Laertius, Diogenes the cynic more interested in Aristotle, say. tendentious, favors their tastes in ten chapters of his work: the doctrines of Plato, Cyrenaica, the Stoics, Skeptics and a very special place, that of Epicurus, who delivers letters and showing maximum the great admiration he professed. Between book and book notes that, contrary to those reported by several critics, there is a powerful group of thinkers system that fits in schools classified as Alexandrian point of view. What moves a vision in which philosophers are dogmatic or skeptical, Ionic (if descended from Anaximander) or italics (if descended from Pythagoras), and involves the division of philosophy into three units: physical, moral and dialectics. Attributed to stem exclusively from Greek philosophy, by name and function. Do not skimp when sources provide a detail: the number of authors that it is immense. There whole passages that verge on plagiarism, paraphrasing or quotation too blatant or timely. Or was it a pedantic reader chronic or massive. Indiscriminately used books Antigonus of Caristo, philosopher, biographer of painters, sculptors and thinkers, Hermippus of Smyrna, librarian, author of a famous "Lives of great men" of Socionics Alexandria, doxographer, Apollodorus of Athens, famous compiler of Demetrius of Magnesia, author of a memorable treatise on the poets and writers homonyms, Diocles of Magnesia, doxographer, historian, friend of the poet Meleager of Favorino, historian and philosopher, as well as many others (Panfilo Heráclides Pontic Hecateo, Duris, etc. .)
In each biography, and according to the information available, the method of exposure is invariably Laertius: Life develops from a family link ("Euclid was a native of Megara, a town near the Isthmus, or according to some, Gela ...") and philosophical ("- Archelaus - was a pupil of Anaxagoras and teacher of Socrates, who first brought the Ionian natural philosophy ..."), Athens presents an anecdotal format, where combines character, vices, virtues, life journey, cites literature (as thoroughly overwhelming as in the life of Theophrastus), summarizes his thought, if they thinks fit, provides a curious document or essential supplies a poem of his or someone else and ends with what was a common Hellenistic enjoyment of coincidences of names and variety of trades. Can not believe that it meets this permanently (the life of Diogenes of Apollonia and others are done with all the reluctance imaginable), but when it does provides invaluable data. Laertius does not intend ever to idealize the vast universe of the life of a thinker, not an analysis or further postulates a vagary metaphysics. Modest as few, is an author who defends life as the main starting point for philosophical discussion. Is able to synthesize an abstract speculation without accepting its aftermath.
Laertius, in every line, every page, gives the impression of being a biographer who achieves his task force stopped appealing to authority or historical criticism. Spontaneity, with an undesirable, is abruptly shoved aside in favor of a harsh comment. Your attempt was a defense against acute scholarship of his time, but it had two writers who struggled to distinguish: the collector, antiques dealer and loan shark lives of special and sensitive poetic thinker, whose work safeguards, with silence or indiscreet revelations happy, the remarkable story of group of men that informed one of the boldest moves and effective cooling of the planet. Nothing less. Or anything else.
Considering the sheer pleasure in the "Lives of the most famous Greek philosophers" would recommend reading the biographies of Heraclitus, Diogenes of Sinope, called The Cynic, of Citium Zeno, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Demetrius Falero Epicurus. Anecdotes and data are arranged with such a sense of humor and philosophy that are irresistible. Fragments anthology a great extent. Suffice it to a sample: "- Diogenes - being in an unclean bathroom, said:" Those who bathe here, where they wash? "." Another says: "He sent - Epimenides - once his father to his field with a sheep, and deviated from the road, when noon came to a cave, and slept there for fifty-seven. Awakened after this time, he sought the sheep, thinking he had only slept for a while, but finding it turned into the field, and as I saw it all from another aspect, and even field to another owner, marveled at end, he went to the city. He wanted to enter his house, and asking who was found with his younger brother, then an old man, who knew of his mouth the whole truth. Known for that of all Greece, which had as beloved of the gods ...". The happiness does not stop once you start reading this prodigious. At least for me, never ended. I think even I'm just at the dawn of that enjoyment.
Postscript. Despite numerous adverse judgments continuity in the work of Laertius transmission is a fact undeniable. It was and remains very well read. José Ortiz Sainz, Castilian translator, wrote in the eighteenth century to the version used "the famous Graeco-Latin edition of Laertius given by Enrique Westenio in Amsterdam, the year of 1692, cum not. Var., In two volumes in 4to." But long before Borbonicus manuscripts (XII century) and the Laurentianus (XIII century) have provided compelling issues with the call is editio princeps of 1533 and was made in Basel, the legendary Hieronymus Frobenius. In 1850 CG
Cobet prepared an issue. In 1950 appeared in the Loeb Library version "Lives of Eminent Philosophers" by RD Hicks, and it is this that I used for the composition of this short text. Have the opportunity, I hope that a frustrated version started in January 1989 reached a happy ending some day.
From:
http://solotxt.brinkster.net/csn/30diogen.htm
Image taken from:
http://www.cienciamisterio.com/pitagoimag.JPG
Life of Diogenes (also "de") Laertius, however, is invented. As Suidas, Ateneo de Naucratis or Hesychius of Miletus, partially rescued the memory erasing his past. R. Hope says that all feature his is a paradox: a doxographer no doubt confused by hasty readings, a poet impressed by the philosophy and metrics, a daring reporter (forgive the neologism bold) of the nonsense in the world of philosophers, a tireless reader defeated by his own scholarship, a writer who combines the topos Uranus Plato with public masturbation Diogenes of Sinope. At this point we do not have data worth yours and we can not predispose or cheer, which, of course, luck can be a factor as much as perverse. Marcel Schwob had not asked for more time to write his biography.
Almost unanimously confirmed that lived between ages 2 and 3 BC Without evidence, we suspect he was born in a city of Cilicia. We do not know who his parents. Has not been determined in which military or philosophical trend which was his profession. Carlos García Gual considered him a follower of Epicurus: "As representatives of Epicureanism de los siglos II y III de nuestra era, están Diógenes de Enoanda, al que conocemos porque su entusiasmo por Epicuro llegó a tanto que mandó grabar en las columnas de la plaza del mercado de Enoanda, para que todos pudieran leerlas, inscripciones pertenecientes a la física y a la moral de Epicuro, y Dógenes Laercio, que a comienzos del siglo III redacta la erduita historia de la filosofía griega...". Con menor fundamento algunos ensayistas lo identifican como un miembro del neoplatonismo. Otros lo acercan al escepticismo. En lo personal, discrepo absolutamente de semejantes posiciones: seis o siete relecturas de su obra me llevan a creer que fue un noble perteneciente a un círculo de eclécticos, lector voraz antes que seguidor a philosophical position and perhaps a vague prestige poet philosophy found a place of comfort and motivation. Love, prepared, according to the gossips, who are always there, to a woman named Arria, their Lives and judgments of the most important Greek philosophers, "or, according to another version," Lives of the most famous Greek philosophers. " This occurred between 225 and 250 AD. Metric to show off their knowledge, allowed the dissemination of "Panmetro" poems in which he boasted of all styles metric used by the great classics and demonstrated the technique in the hands of a bad poet, is a subterfuge that exhausts all forms there is not move the reader. In one of his epigrams, dedicated to Anaxagoras, said:
"That the Sun is burning mass
Anaxagoras said, and therefore
was sentenced to death.
What Pericles delivered his disciple:
but he learned from languor,
know let life volunteer. "
I have on hand the trials of E. Schwarz, RD Hicks, Arnaldo Momigliano, Antonio Alegre Gorri and others on Diogenes Laertius and his "Lives of the most famous Greek philosophers." Brilliant, tireless, intense, concise, above. It would be an honor, indeed, share their observations, but I want to convey, to the extent that is possible, a personal version of a book that does not hesitate to call classic. I'm interested too to avail myself of the voice of others to explain. What continues to worry me to read, to put it bluntly, is its uneven: I suspect that was not written originally as a single book. Moreover, there is a phrase, for a woman, in Book III, which makes me believe that the text around Plato was the first of the series: "And you, quite rightly, a lover of Plato, and askest with great diligence the dogmas of the philosopher, I have had for inexcusable write about the nature of his style, the order of the dialogues and the series of his doctrine, in my power to reach, touching all elementary and summarily, so as not to lack a sufficient notice of his life and work ...". This unusual and dislocated prologue of the scenes will surely love this short, had to leave the idea of \u200b\u200ba kind biographical dictionary of the history of the philosophy of his time, which was not new to his contemporaries.
No impartial Laertius, Diogenes the cynic more interested in Aristotle, say. tendentious, favors their tastes in ten chapters of his work: the doctrines of Plato, Cyrenaica, the Stoics, Skeptics and a very special place, that of Epicurus, who delivers letters and showing maximum the great admiration he professed. Between book and book notes that, contrary to those reported by several critics, there is a powerful group of thinkers system that fits in schools classified as Alexandrian point of view. What moves a vision in which philosophers are dogmatic or skeptical, Ionic (if descended from Anaximander) or italics (if descended from Pythagoras), and involves the division of philosophy into three units: physical, moral and dialectics. Attributed to stem exclusively from Greek philosophy, by name and function. Do not skimp when sources provide a detail: the number of authors that it is immense. There whole passages that verge on plagiarism, paraphrasing or quotation too blatant or timely. Or was it a pedantic reader chronic or massive. Indiscriminately used books Antigonus of Caristo, philosopher, biographer of painters, sculptors and thinkers, Hermippus of Smyrna, librarian, author of a famous "Lives of great men" of Socionics Alexandria, doxographer, Apollodorus of Athens, famous compiler of Demetrius of Magnesia, author of a memorable treatise on the poets and writers homonyms, Diocles of Magnesia, doxographer, historian, friend of the poet Meleager of Favorino, historian and philosopher, as well as many others (Panfilo Heráclides Pontic Hecateo, Duris, etc. .)
In each biography, and according to the information available, the method of exposure is invariably Laertius: Life develops from a family link ("Euclid was a native of Megara, a town near the Isthmus, or according to some, Gela ...") and philosophical ("- Archelaus - was a pupil of Anaxagoras and teacher of Socrates, who first brought the Ionian natural philosophy ..."), Athens presents an anecdotal format, where combines character, vices, virtues, life journey, cites literature (as thoroughly overwhelming as in the life of Theophrastus), summarizes his thought, if they thinks fit, provides a curious document or essential supplies a poem of his or someone else and ends with what was a common Hellenistic enjoyment of coincidences of names and variety of trades. Can not believe that it meets this permanently (the life of Diogenes of Apollonia and others are done with all the reluctance imaginable), but when it does provides invaluable data. Laertius does not intend ever to idealize the vast universe of the life of a thinker, not an analysis or further postulates a vagary metaphysics. Modest as few, is an author who defends life as the main starting point for philosophical discussion. Is able to synthesize an abstract speculation without accepting its aftermath.
Laertius, in every line, every page, gives the impression of being a biographer who achieves his task force stopped appealing to authority or historical criticism. Spontaneity, with an undesirable, is abruptly shoved aside in favor of a harsh comment. Your attempt was a defense against acute scholarship of his time, but it had two writers who struggled to distinguish: the collector, antiques dealer and loan shark lives of special and sensitive poetic thinker, whose work safeguards, with silence or indiscreet revelations happy, the remarkable story of group of men that informed one of the boldest moves and effective cooling of the planet. Nothing less. Or anything else.
Considering the sheer pleasure in the "Lives of the most famous Greek philosophers" would recommend reading the biographies of Heraclitus, Diogenes of Sinope, called The Cynic, of Citium Zeno, Pythagoras, Socrates, and Demetrius Falero Epicurus. Anecdotes and data are arranged with such a sense of humor and philosophy that are irresistible. Fragments anthology a great extent. Suffice it to a sample: "- Diogenes - being in an unclean bathroom, said:" Those who bathe here, where they wash? "." Another says: "He sent - Epimenides - once his father to his field with a sheep, and deviated from the road, when noon came to a cave, and slept there for fifty-seven. Awakened after this time, he sought the sheep, thinking he had only slept for a while, but finding it turned into the field, and as I saw it all from another aspect, and even field to another owner, marveled at end, he went to the city. He wanted to enter his house, and asking who was found with his younger brother, then an old man, who knew of his mouth the whole truth. Known for that of all Greece, which had as beloved of the gods ...". The happiness does not stop once you start reading this prodigious. At least for me, never ended. I think even I'm just at the dawn of that enjoyment.
Postscript. Despite numerous adverse judgments continuity in the work of Laertius transmission is a fact undeniable. It was and remains very well read. José Ortiz Sainz, Castilian translator, wrote in the eighteenth century to the version used "the famous Graeco-Latin edition of Laertius given by Enrique Westenio in Amsterdam, the year of 1692, cum not. Var., In two volumes in 4to." But long before Borbonicus manuscripts (XII century) and the Laurentianus (XIII century) have provided compelling issues with the call is editio princeps of 1533 and was made in Basel, the legendary Hieronymus Frobenius. In 1850 CG
Cobet prepared an issue. In 1950 appeared in the Loeb Library version "Lives of Eminent Philosophers" by RD Hicks, and it is this that I used for the composition of this short text. Have the opportunity, I hope that a frustrated version started in January 1989 reached a happy ending some day.
From:
http://solotxt.brinkster.net/csn/30diogen.htm
Image taken from:
http://www.cienciamisterio.com/pitagoimag.JPG
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