Stephen A White
Biographic Data
| ID | 5720959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen A White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen A |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE S A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers
A pioneering work in the history of philosophy, the ancient text of the Lives presents engaging portraits of nearly a hundred Greek philosophers. It blends biography with bibliography and surveys of leading theories, peppered with punchy anecdotes, pithy maxims, and even snatches of poetry, much of it by the philosophers themselves. The work presents a systematic genealogy of Greek philosophy from its origins in the sixth century BCE to its flowe…
Aristo of Ceos
Philosophy after Aristotle
Happiness in the Hellenistic Lyceum
Cicero and the Therapists
When Alcibiades, flush from carousing in the streets, bursts in on Agathon’s symposium and launches his exuberant eulogy of Socrates, he begins by likening his friend the philosopher to the satyr Marsyas whose looks repelled but whose piping enchanted. Whenever I listen to him, my heart pounds more than a Corybant’s and his words move me to tears; and I see many others affected in the same way. When I listened to Pericles and other good speakers,…
Thrasymachus the Diplomat
The Morality of Happiness
Callimachus on Plato and Cleombrotus
Sovereign Virtue
Sovereign Virtue
Is Aristotelian Happiness a Good Life or the Best Life?
It is a fundamental principle of ancient ethics, shared by nearly all parties, that what people want most of all is to live well, to lead a happy life. As Aristotle puts it, in the most comprehensive account extant, happiness is the ultimate goal or end of human life. It is not simply something that we all should seek, but something that we all do seek, to the extent that we can: all who have the capacity and the opportunity to manage their own l…
Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action
Is Aristotelian Happiness a Good Life or the Best Life?
It is a fundamental principle of ancient ethics, shared by nearly all parties, that what people want most of all is to live well, to lead a happy life. As Aristotle puts it, in the most comprehensive account extant, happiness is the ultimate goal or end of human life. It is not simply something that we all should seek, but something that we all do seek, to the extent that we can: all who have the capacity and the opportunity to manage their own l…
Epicurus on the Swerve and Voluntary Action
Callimachus on Plato and Cleombrotus
Sovereign Virtue
Sovereign Virtue
Cicero and the Therapists
When Alcibiades, flush from carousing in the streets, bursts in on Agathon’s symposium and launches his exuberant eulogy of Socrates, he begins by likening his friend the philosopher to the satyr Marsyas whose looks repelled but whose piping enchanted. Whenever I listen to him, my heart pounds more than a Corybant’s and his words move me to tears; and I see many others affected in the same way. When I listened to Pericles and other good speakers,…
Thrasymachus the Diplomat
The Morality of Happiness
Happiness in the Hellenistic Lyceum
Philosophy after Aristotle
Aristo of Ceos
Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers
A pioneering work in the history of philosophy, the ancient text of the Lives presents engaging portraits of nearly a hundred Greek philosophers. It blends biography with bibliography and surveys of leading theories, peppered with punchy anecdotes, pithy maxims, and even snatches of poetry, much of it by the philosophers themselves. The work presents a systematic genealogy of Greek philosophy from its origins in the sixth century BCE to its flowe…
Classical Philosophy and Thought (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Art (5 works) · Happiness (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Art history (3 works)