Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Compact Edition

by Diogenes Laërtius, Charles Duke Yonge, Charles Marie Zévort

Book Overview

Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide variety of ideas and examples to follow. This rich tradition was recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of maxims and anecdotes, that generations of Western readers have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197523390
• ISBN13: 9780197523391
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"