Esse quam videri
Esse quam videri is a Latin phrase meaning "To be, rather than to seem". It and variants have been used as a motto by a number of different groups. The form Esse, non Videri ("To be, not to be seen") is the Wallenberg family motto.[1] History[edit] Esse quam videri is found in Cicero's essay On Friendship (Laelius de Amicitia, chapter 98).
Ipse dixit
The Roman politician Marcus Tullius Cicero coined the phrase ipse dixit, which translates from the Latin as, "he said it himself" Ipse dixit (Latin for "he said it himself") is an assertion without proof; or a dogmatic expression of opinion.[1] The fallacy of defending a proposition by baldly asserting that it is "just how it is" distorts the argument by opting out of it entirely: the claimant declares an issue to be intrinsic, and not changeable.[2]
The 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers
When we hear the word “philosopher," we tend to think of Ancient Greeks like Socrates or Plato, or perhaps the Frenchman René Descartes, or maybe infamous Germans like Karl Marx or Friedrich Nietzsche. Influential philosophers thus seem to populate the past. But are there any important philosophers living in the world today? We can thank philosophers, both past and present, for a number of our deeply held beliefs. These beliefs dictate how we understand and involve ourselves in the world.
List of ancient Romans
Wikimedia list article This an alphabetical List of ancient Romans. These include citizens of ancient Rome remembered in history. Note that some persons may be listed multiple times, once for each part of the name.
Lorem ipsum
Placeholder text used in publishing and graphic design Using lorem ipsum to focus attention on graphic elements in a webpage design proposal Lorem ipsum is typically a corrupted version of De finibus bonorum et malorum, a first-century BCE text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical, improper Latin. Example text[edit] A common form of lorem ipsum reads: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
Marcantonius Majoragio
Marcantonius Majoragio (1514–1555[1]) was a Christian within Italy during the Renaissance period.[2][3][1] Majoragio was born Maria Antonio Conti in a place in the proximity of Milan in Italy, known as Majoragio.[3] Majoragio was professor for a time at Milan, and a scholar who was known to have studied after the ancient Roman philosopher and orator Cicero. During 1542 he attended lectures held within Ferrara, these lectures were performed by Maggi on the subject of philosophy, and by Alciati on jurisprudence. He occupied an intellectual position both in defence of Cicero, in respect to Calcagnini's attack on the work De Officiis and contrary and in some way hostile, in respect to the work Paradoxa Stoicorum, in this case in his own work Antiparadoxon.
James Arthur Hadfield
James Arthur Hadfield (1882–1967) was a pioneer of psychodynamic psychotherapy in Britain, who became an influential figure at the interwar Tavistock Clinic. He is perhaps best known as being the analyst of W. R.
Marcus Tullius Tiro
Marcus Tullius Tiro (died c. 4 BC) was first a slave, then a freedman of Cicero. He is frequently mentioned in Cicero's letters. After Cicero's death he published his former master's collected works. He also wrote a considerable number of books himself, and possibly invented an early form of shorthand.
Marius Nizolius
Marius Nizolius (Italian: Mario Nizolio; 1498–1576) was an Italian humanist scholar, known as a proponent of Cicero. He considered rhetoric to be the central intellectual discipline, slighting other aspects of the philosophical tradition.[1][2] He is described by Michael R. Allen as the heir to the oratorical vision of Lorenzo Valla, and a better nominalist.[3] Life[edit] He was born in Brescello. He was professor of philosophy at Parma and Sabbioneta.[4][5]
Sigmund Freud Appears in Rare, Surviving Video & Audio Recorded During the 1930s
What, I wonder, would Sigmund Freud have made of Hannibal Lector? The fictional psychoanalyst, so sophisticated and in control, moonlighting as a bloodthirsty cannibal… a perfectly grim rejoinder to Freud’s ideas about humankind’s perpetual discontent with the painful repression of our darkest, most antisocial drives. While Freud’s primary taboo was incest, not cannibalism, I’m sure he would have appreciated the irony of an ultra-civilized psychiatrist who gives full steam to his most primal urges. Freud—who was born on this day in 1856, in the small town of Freiberg—also had a carefully controlled image, though his passionate avocation was not for the macabre, salacious, or prurient, but for the archaeological. He once remarked that he read more on that subject than on his own, an exaggeration, most likely, but an indication of just how much his interest in cultural artifacts and ritual contributed to his theoretical explication of individual and social psychology. Related Content:
O tempora o mores!
Exclamation by Cicero, most famously in first Catilinarian oration O tempora o mores is a Latin phrase that translates literally as Oh the times! Oh the customs!
Otium
Leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors Getty Villa representing life at otium (leisure) of an ancient Roman villa Otium, a Latin abstract term, has a variety of meanings, including leisure time in which a person can enjoy eating, playing, resting, contemplation and academic endeavors. It sometimes, but not always, relates to a time in a person's retirement after previous service to the public or private sector, opposing "active public life". Otium can be a temporary time of leisure, that is sporadic. It can have intellectual, virtuous or immoral implications.
Quintus Tullius Cicero
Quintus Tullius Cicero ( SISS-ə-roh, Classical Latin: [ˈkɪkɛroː]; 102 BC – 43 BC) was a Roman statesman and military leader, the younger brother of Marcus Tullius Cicero. He was born into a family of the equestrian order, as the son of a wealthy landowner in Arpinum, some 100 kilometres south-east of Rome. Biography[edit] During the Second Triumvirate, when the Roman Republic was again in civil war, Quintus, his son, and his brother, were all proscribed. He fled from Tusculum with his brother.
