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Headword:
*filosofei=n
Adler number: phi,414
Translated headword: to philosophize
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to take seriously.[1]
"If someone should say that it is not necessary to philosophize: since 'to philosophize' includes both to investigate this very [question], whether it is necessary to philosophize or not, and also to pursue philosophical contemplation; each of these is shown to be congenial to humans, entirely refuting the proposition."[2]
Greek Original:*filosofei=n: spouda/zein. o(/ti ei) le/goi tis, mh\ xrh\ filosofei=n: e)pei\ filosofei=n le/getai kai\ to\ zhtei=n au)to\ tou=to, ei) xrh\ filosofei=n h)\ mh/, a)lla\ kai\ to\ th\n filo/sofon qewri/an metie/nai: e(ka/teron au)tw=n dei/cantes oi)kei=on pantaxo/qen tw=| a)nqrw/pw|, pantaxo/qen a)nairh/somen to\ tiqe/menon.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius phi191 Theodoridis. For the verb see also
phi 415,
phi 420, and LSJ entry at web address 1.
[2] Alexander of
Aphrodisias,
Commentaries on Aristotle's Topics 149.11-15 (CIAG II.2). Alexander attributes the argument to
Aristotle in his (now lost) popular work
Protreptiko\s filosofi/as. There are several subsequent testimonies to the argument, which modify it in various ways: Anonymous, schol. in Arist. Anal. priora, cod. Paris. 2064, f.263a;
Olympiodorus, In Alcib. p. 144, Creuzer;
Elias, Proleg. Phil., 2, CIAG XVIII:I, p.3,17-23;
David, Proleg. Phil., 4, CIAG XVIII:2,p.9,2-12, Buss.
I. During. Aristotle's Protrepticus: An Attempt at Reconstruction Goteburg, 1961, pp. 43-44
W.G. Rabinowitz. Aristotle's Protrepticus and the sources of its reconstruction Berkeley, 1957, pp. 37-38
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Keywords: definition; ethics; philosophy
Translated by: Monte Johnson on 2 October 2002@14:19:45.
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