William De Witt Hyde

When asked why some men with moderate talents and meagre technical equipment succeed, where others with greater ability and better preparation fail; why some women with plain features and few accomplishments charm, while others with all the advantages of beauty and cultivation repel, we are wont to conceal our ignorance behind the vague term personality. Undoubtedly the deeper springs of personality are below the threshold of consciousness, in hereditary traits and early training. Still some of the higher elements of personality rise above this threshold, are reducible to philosophical principles, and amenable to rational control. The five centuries from the birth of Socrates to the death of Jesus produced five such principles: the Epicurean pursuit of pleasure, genial but ungenerous; the Stoic law of self-control, strenuous but forbidding; the Platonic plan of subordination, sublime but ascetic; the Aristotelian sense of proportion, practical but uninspiring; and the Christian Spirit of Love, broadest and deepest of them all. The purpose of this book is to let the masters of these sane and wholesome principles of personality talk to us in their own words; with just enough of comment and interpretation to bring us to their points of view, and make us welcome their friendly assistance in the philosophical guidance of life. Why a new edition under a new title? Because "From Epicurus to Christ" had an antiquarian flavor; while the book presents those answers to the problem of life, which, though offered first by the ancients, are still so broad, deep, and true that all our modern answers are mere varieties of these five great types. Because the former title suggested that the historical aspect was a finality; whereas it is here used merely as the most effective approach to present-day solutions of the fundamental problems of life.

The Five Great Philosophies of Life

Xenophon

Plato

William Smith

Henry Sidgwick

Stoic Six Pack 7 The Sophists brings key primary and secondary sources together in one volume for a fully rounded understanding of this early, often misunderstood philosophical movement: The Sophists by Henry Sidgwick; Protagoras, Euthydemus and Gorgias by Plato; Memoirs of Socrates by Xenophon; Stoic Self-control by William De Witt Hyde and The Sophists Biographical Sketches by William Smith.

Stoic Six Pack 7: The Sophists

Vocations: The mechanic arts, ed. by R.C. Maclaurin

Outlines of Social Theology

Practical Idealism

From Epicurus to Christ, A Study in the Principles of Personality

Two centuries before the Stoics lived The Sophists, star philosophers who roamed Athens during the fifth century B.C. commanding large fees for speaking and private lessons. They offered practical education, speculation on the nature of the universe and knowledge in the art of life and politics. The most famous were Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, Thrasymachus, Callicles, Lycophron, Antiphon and Cratylus. Stoic Six Pack 7 - The Sophists brings key primary and secondary sources together in one volume for a fully rounded understanding of this early, often misunderstood philosophical movement: The Sophists by Henry Sidgwick. Dialogues Protagoras and Gorgias by Plato. Memoirs of Socrates by Xenophon. Stoic Self-control by William De Witt Hyde. The Sophists - Biographical Sketches by William Smith. Euthydemus by Plato. Includes Sophist image gallery.

The Sophists

Stoic Six Pack 7

Elbert Hubbard

George Grote

Alexander Grant

Diogenes LaërtiusGeorge Malcolm Stratton

'Stoic Six Pack 8 Ð The Peripatetics' includes Lyco of Troas by Diogenes La'rtius, The Aristotelian Sense of Proportion by William De Witt Hyde, Strato of Lampsacus by Diogenes La'rtius, Life of Aristotle by George Grote, Theophrastus by George Malcolm Stratton and Post-Aristotelian Philosophy: The Stoics by Alexander Grant.

Stoic Six Pack 8: The Peripatetics

A STUDY IN THR PRINCIPLES OF PERSONALITY

William De Witt Hyde

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