In completing my book on the history of moral thought I had to cut the original manuscript quite considerably. Much of what has been lost is better off left on the cutting room floor. There are, however, some sections coherent enough to be worth reading. So,  I am running an occasional series publishing some of the more cogent ‘lost pages’ from the book. Previous excerpts were on Machiavelli and on Descartes. This extract is on Democritus, Thucydides and Protagoras. The book itself, which […]

Categories: History of moral thought, Philosophy & Ethics • Tags: cynicism, democritus, ethics, greek philosophy, history of ideas, history of moral thought, skepticism, thucydides