Between the walk and the portico. On Diogenes Laertius's Life of Aristotle, 5, 1-35. [Spanish]
Keywords:
Bio-doxography, Diogenes Laertius, Life of Aristotle, Organon,Abstract
For the composition of his Life of Aristotle Diogenes Laertius does not read Aristotle’s own works. Instead Laertius seems to reproduce an older synthesis of his philosophy, written, likewise, taking into account various sources. Most of his exposition traces down the opinions (placita) referred to logical issues and, above all, physical and ethical. The exposition of Aristotelian opinions comes from antique documentation various centuries before Laertius’ composition (third century), even before Andronicus of Rhodes (first century B.C.). Most of it also uses the well-known stoic division: he first analyses the logic, then the ethics and finally the physics. This is the most interesting part of Laertius composition for it lets us go back to the Hellenistic period in which scholarly manuals had not penetrated the Aristotelian corpus. On our behalf, we will center our study on the analysis of logic developed through the Laertian exposition of book V.
Downloads
Issue
Section
License
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:1. The Author retains copyright in the Work, where the term "Work" shall include all digital objects that may result in subsequent electronic publication or distribution.
2. Upon acceptance of the Work, the author shall grant to the Publisher the right of first publication of the Work.
The Author shall grant to the Publisher a nonexclusive perpetual right and license to publish, archive, and make accessible the Work in whole or in part in all forms of media now or hereafter known under a Creative Commons 3.0 License Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported CC BY-NC 3.0, or its equivalent, which, for the avoidance of doubt, allows others to copy, distribute, and transmit the Work under the following conditions: (a) Attribution: Other users must attribute the Work in the manner specified by the author as indicated on the journal Web site;(b) Noncommercial: Other users (including Publisher) may not use this Work for commercial purposes;
4. The Author is able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the nonexclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the Work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), as long as there is provided in the document an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
5. Authors are permitted, and Eidos promotes, to post online the preprint manuscript of the Work in institutional repositories or on their Websites prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access). Any such posting made before acceptance and publication of the Work is expected be updated upon publication to include a reference to the Eidos's assigned URL to the Article and its final published version in Eidos.
