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emma • 4 cards
Socrate considérait la philosophie comme un questionnement sur l'homme et les affaires humaines ; Platon, son disciple, entend que l'objet de ce questionnement soit le monde intelligible, considéré comme source d'être et de connaissance, fondement du monde sensible. Aristote, qui fréquenta pendant dix-sept ans l'Académie de Platon, comme élève et
... See moreJ. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire • Ethique à Nicomaque (Classiques Philo t. 4611) (French Edition)
aphorisms
Marcus Weeks • The Philosophy Book
“Philosophy does not claim to get a person any external possession. To do so would be beyond its field. As wood is to the carpenter, bronze to the sculptor, so our own lives are the proper material in the art of living.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.15.2
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy To Come Back To
Nariné M.G. • 1 card
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. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden
Être philosophe, ce n’est pas simplement avoir des pensées subtiles, ni même fonder une école, mais aimer la sagesse au point de vivre selon ses préceptes, une vie de simplicité, d’indépendance, de magnanimité et de confiance. C’est résoudre quelques-uns des problèmes de la vie, non pas de manière théorique, mais pratique.
Henry D. THOREAU, Jim Harrison, Brice MATTHIEUSSENT, • Walden (LITTERATURES) (French Edition)
The ancient Greek philosophers granted a special place to mathematics. They made it the prerequisite of all philosophy and science. Legend has it that the following phrase was engraved at the entry to Plato’s Academy: “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter.”