PHIL100J Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Heraclides Ponticus, Sophia (Wisdom), Tusculanae Disputationes
24 Mar 2015
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It is said that the word philosophy was coined more than two thousand years ago, by pythagoras (6th century. The greeks had traditionally called particularly admirable people wise (sophoi), but according to an. Ancient tradition, it is pythagoras who created a new word by saying that he was a lover or friend (philos) of wisdom (sophia). Here is how cicero (106-43 b. c. ) reports that story : But indeed, who can dispute the antiquity of philosophy, either in fact or name? for it acquired this excellent name from the ancients, by the knowledge of the origin and causes of everything, both divine and human. Thus those seven , as they were considered and called by the. Greeks, have always been esteemed and called wise men by us: and thus lycurgus many ages before, in whose time, before the building of this city, homer is said to have lived, as well as.
