The Sociology of Philosophies
open to women, and women philosophers were also found among the Cynics, who were iconoclastic about sexism as well as everything ...
attention space for more than a few to get first-rate recognition at one time, and over the flow of generations still fewer who ...
CHAPTER 3 £ Partitioning Attention Space: The Case of Ancient Greece Creative persons are typically linked to one another in cha ...
transformation of the whole intellectual problem space. The underlying dy- namic is a struggle over intellectual territory of li ...
positions above the level at which groups can still be relatively large and visible (i.e., above about six) is self-defeating. T ...
terpret them counter-anthropomorphically as ultimate constituents of nature. Heraclitus, who as a priest is a last remnant of th ...
PHILOSOPHICAL SCHOOLS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION ...
deriving from Thales; from Pherecydes, possibly connecting with the “sage” Pittacus (2 in the key); and from Xenophanes. This ac ...
doctrine of number, might seem to present a parallel, but it is doubtful that the generation of Pythagoras himself viewed number ...
lectual positions with inconsistencies generated by a more abstract analysis. The cultural capital here came originally from Her ...
tion with “Plato”) was to recombine intellectual stances: where the Sophists had worked this material from the relativistic (and ...
distrust of intellectual positions should be a lived commitment, thus giving rise to Cynicism. We should also include Isocrates, ...
under it, changing drastically several times between emanationist religion and skepticism. The epistemological sharpness of the ...
brotherhood than a fee-taking school. It carried on for five generations down to around 330, including a branch at its mother ci ...
endowed property. In another respect, these were the first schools of higher education, beyond the level of the elementary schoo ...
During the following generations, the crisis of the law of small numbers came to a head. The material bases of intellectual life ...
directions by letter from the headquarters, and were expected to send contri- butions.^10 The Peripatos had the rockiest history ...
lectuals were involved in politics and made their living from their private for- tunes, in political office, or by making speech ...
FIGURE 3.4. PROLIFERATION AND RECOMBINATION OF THE GREEK SCHOOLS, 400–200 B.C.E. 96 •^ The Skeleton of Theory ...
position by its total commitment to living its doctrine, and the term “philoso- pher” conjured up more than anything else the im ...
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