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There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations: Ancient Philosophy for Modern Problems
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Stoic Six Pack 8 – The Peripatetics: Lyco of Troas, Aristotelian Proportion, Strato of Lampsacus, Life of Aristotle, Theophrastus and Post-Aristotle: The Stoics (Illustrated)
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Book One ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
The writings of Plato and Aristotle are haunted by a figure who seeks wisdom of the highest things and who thereby gains practical wisdom, knowledge of how to govern. The first philosopher, Thales, fell into a well while looking at the stars, possessed by knowledge Aristotle called “wondrous, difficult and divine—but useless.” Yet Socrates fought... See more
Zena Hitz • The Lamp Magazine | The Practical Wisdom of Eva Brann
