“The truth is hypothetical.”Scepticism (or skepticism), the belief that requires all information to be well supported by evidence, originated in the Skeptikoi, a first century BC Greek school who “asserted nothing.” The school was founded by Aenesidemus; our main source of the school’s teachings is Sextus Empiricus and the leader of the Sceptics was Pyrrho of Elis (365-275 BC) who had traveled to India and studied with the gymnosophists (naked lovers of wisdom). From India, Pyrrho ...

"I would rather go mad than feel pleasure."- Antisthenes.For Cynics the secret to happiness was living a life of virtue in harmony with Nature with only the bare essentials necessary for survival. They rejected materialism and were free of belongings. Many were homeless and proud of it. The Cynics emphasized the value of self-sufficiency, or autarkeia. They ate one (vegetarian) meal a day and made a habit of walking vast distances to stay in shape. The school extoll...

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Principal Microsoft cybersecurity leader Yuri Diogenes delivers a practical playbook for leading enterprise AI transformation with strategy, governance, and secure Microsoft AI adoption!Lead with confidence through the full lifecycle of enterprise AI adoption with Leading AI Transformation: Strategy, Governance, and Security Considerations by Yuri Diogenes. Written for business and technology leaders who need to move beyond isolated pilots, this practical ...

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In ***The Stoics***Diogenes Laërtius details the lives and philosophical opinions of the first Greek Stoic philosophers:Zeno of CitiumAriston of ChiosHerillus of CarthageDionysius the RenegadeCleanthes of AssosSphaerus of BosphorusChrysippus of SoliLaërtius’ main sources were Favorinus and Diocles of Magnesia, but his work also draws (either directly or indirectly) on books by Antisthenes of Rhodes, Al...

The book is organized into ten books, each focusing on different philosophers, including Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Epicurus, among others. Diogenes Laertius employs a blend of historical narrative, anecdotes, and quotations to paint a vivid picture of each philosopher’s character and intellectual contributions. He highlights their distinctive views on ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, and politics, offering readers a glimpse into the diverse philosophical traditions that shaped West...

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'many men compete in digging and kicking but no one at all in the pursuit of human excellence.' Diogenes the Cynic is best remembered today for having lived in a storage-jar, and walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. Such stories formed part of a rich tradition of sayings and anecdotes; his biting wit and eccentric behaviour were legendary, and it was by means of these oft-repeated and embellished aphorisms that his moral teachings were tr...

Diese Sammlung vereint die bedeutendsten historischen Werke der antiken Welt und bietet einen einzigartigen Überblick über die Entwicklung der Geschichtsschreibung von den Anfängen im klassischen Griechenland bis in die Spätantike. Die enthaltenen Werke zählen zu den wichtigsten Quellen der europäischen Kulturgeschichte und dokumentieren die politischen, militärischen, gesellschaftlichen und geistigen Entwicklungen, die die antike Welt nachhaltig geprägt haben. Zugleich spiegeln sie die En...

Ancient Philosophy brings together the ideas, character, and personal histories of the foundational minds of the ancient world, revealing philosophy not as abstraction, but as lived practice.Rather than presenting philosophy as distant or academic, this book restores its original purpose: guidance for living well. The wisdom here is concise, practical, and grounded in everyday concerns, such as how to act, how to judge, how to endure, and how to live with ...

Accordingly Clitarchus, in his twelfth book, says that the Gymnosophists despise death, and that the Chaldæans study astronomy and the science of soothsaying—that the Magi occupy themselves about the service to be paid to the gods, and about sacrifices and prayers, as if they were the only people to whom the deities listen: and that they deliver accounts of the existence and generation of the gods, saying that they are fire, and earth, and water; and they condemn the use of images, and abo...