单词 | doxographer |
释义 | doxographern. A writer who collects and records the opinions or placita of the Greek philosophers. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > pre-Socratic schools of philosophy > [noun] > Presocratic philosopher or adherent > writer who records doxographer1892 1892 J. Burnet Early Greek Philos. 371 By the term doxographers we understand all those writers who relate the opinions of the Greek philosophers. 1908 J. Adam Relig. Teachers of Greece xiii. 268 The doxographers sometimes ascribe to him [sc. Democritus] the doctrine of a single world-soul or Deity identical..with the aggregate of fiery atoms in the world. 1919 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 39 180 The Greek doxographers know of no astronomer before Thales. 1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. x. 239 We have only fragments and the sayings of doxographers, indirectly and poorly transmitted. Derivatives doxoˈgraphic adj. ΚΠ 1937 Mind 46 248 Nor was he..blind to the possibility that doxographic statements going back to Theophrastus may sometimes originate in an Aristotelian misconception or misrepresentation. 1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. x. 239 Doxographic books of the latter [sc. Theophrastos] are known only indirectly through later extracts. doxoˈgraphical adj. of or pertaining to the doxographers. ΚΠ 1892 J. Burnet Early Greek Philos. 375 Short doxographical summaries are to be found in Eusebios [etc.]. 1908 J. Adam Relig. Teachers of Greece xiii. 267 We have doxographical testimony to show that Diogenes pronounced the soul to be imperishable. 1952 Jrnl. Theol. Stud. 3 123 The problem how far [Basil] knew the philosophers from their actual works and how far he was dependent on anthologies and doxographical manuals. doˈxography n. a collection of philosophical opinions. ΚΠ 1892 J. Burnet Early Greek Philos. 374 The doxography [of the Lucullus] has come through the hands of Kleitomachus. 1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xii. 327 We really need a new critical edition of all the Ctesias fragments and of the doxography relative to him. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1892 |
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