Lives & Opinions of Eminent Philosophers – Vol. I

Not what it seems. • Thales—the truth behind the ghost village of Roanoke and the secrets of the School of the Night • Epimenides—Hell found in the wilderness of America and the Corps of Discovery • Anaxagoras—out of body experiences (OBE) and lost love and 1968 • And stories of secession, of the American Socrates, of American solipsism, and the hidden twin ************************************************ Lives & Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (in three volumes) are compendium of fiction—short stories and novellas—that are predicated upon anecdotes and ideas concerning certain ancient Greek philosophers (with reference to several one more modern ones). The title derives from original text of the ancient author Diogenes Laërtius from which I have taken some liberties. To each eponymous philosopher a certain similitude passes, sympathetic or ironic, and to each recast "hero" a given philosophy of some merit may be discerned, though not necessarily faithful to his namesake. In the end the purpose of the text is story telling, not philosophy, and unless you want truth in the matter of living, rather than dialectic, you may find this all disappointing. Volume I addresses: Thales, Solon, Periander, Epimenides, Anaximander, Chilon, Anaxagoras, and Socrates. Volume II addresses: Aristippus, Plato, Polemon, Aristotle, Antisthenes, Diogenes the Cynic, Cleanthes, Pyrrho, an unnamed disciple of Epicurus and Chrysippus. Volume III, unpublished and unfinished, is projected to include: Monimus, Crates, Hipparchia, Menedemos, Zeno, Pittacus, Heraclites, Pythagoras, Democritus, Epicurus and Parmenides.