Empedocles and His Ancientreaders on Desire and Pleasure
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23177603 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Wolfsdorf (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 1-71 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Oxford studies in ancient philosophy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199568109.003.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4388213364 |
| ISBN | 9780199568109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
A: What are Plato, Speusippus, and Menedemus up to?... What weighty thought, what line of argument are they now investigating? ...B: I can tell you about these fellows for sure, since at the Panathenaea I saw a group of youngsters in the exercise-grounds of the Academy and heard them speaking, indescribable, astonishing! They were propounding definitions about nature and separating into categories the forms of life of animals, the nature of trees, and the classes of vegetables. And in particular, they were investigating to what genus one should assign the pumpkin...One of the boys said it was a round vegetable; another that it was a grass; another that it was a tree.
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Biology · Genus · Pleasure · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Philosophy and Thought · Ecology · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |