DICEARCHUS, the philosopher of Messina,

lived between the 350 and 290 a.C. approximately.

Disciple of Aristotle, remained for along time in Greece in the city of Atene.

 

Its thought comes associated to that one of the peripatetica school that lasted for various centuries to incirca from IV the century to YOU the century d.C., school that was structured according to programs and rigorously scientific orders of study.

The association of such "peripatetica" name had had to the fact that the Perìpato was not other that the paved arcade one of inner of the Grammar school of Atene where Aristotle held its lessons taking a walk to you with its students.

 

The thought of the adepts person of this school more shapes in an attitude than pure and simple contemplation but in the found again sense of one more systematic and does not realize understanding of several the aspects of the truth, currency the importance dedicating to real one meticulous analysis turns some to pick the intimate logons of several the particular, in one conception of the philosophy like reason and science directive. One total understanding, therefore, that it wants to be supported meaningfully from the scientific aspect rather than suspended between the ideal and the contemplative.

 

Little but meant fragments and fragments to you of its works have been hand on to you: of particular relief " Spirit", "practical Life", "Mantica" where exactly it comes supported the necessity of greater concretezza in the real and consequent reduction of the value of the teoretica life.A lot meant is its tests said On Alceus, Tripolitico, State of Greece.

 

Route around to the world is its geographic work more important, for before the time it comes indicated the topographical subdivision based on meridians and parallels.

Dicearco introduces a geometric system based on reticulating: it divides the earth known with a longitudinal line that left from the columns of Ercole and arrived to the Indian Caucasus and with an orthogonal line that Siene in Aswan with Loosestrife joined city on the istmo of the Chersoneso in Thrace. Other important fragment is sure what Dicearco, in the within of its geographic studies, has dedicated to the description of the Pelio mount.

 

Dicearco is a philosopher but also a scientist, cultore refining, the maximum exponent of the primitiva mitografia which seems to contrast the aspect more exquisitely scientific of its works. It's his rich "cultural baggage" that brings him to space in the disparate disciplines that place it in the condition for being author, between the other, of the " Arguments of the tragedies of Sofocle and Euripide". The test Description of Greece came dedicated to Teofrasto and is probably the first history of the Greek culture oriented to revalue the historical progress.

 

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