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Full Idea
If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now.
Clarification
'Law' is the Greek word 'nomos', which also translates as 'convention'
Gist of Idea
If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now
Source
Aristippus the elder (fragments/reports [c.395 BCE]), quoted by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 02.Ar.4
Book Ref
Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.83
A Reaction
Presumably philosophers develop inner laws which other people lack.
| 1649 | Socrates opened philosophy to all, but Plato confined moral enquiry to a tiny elite [Vlastos on Socrates] |
| 1749 | If all laws were abolished, philosophers would still live as they do now [Aristippus elder] |
| 559 | Even people who go astray in their opinions have contributed something useful [Aristotle] |
| 15624 | Free thinking has no presuppositions [Hegel] |
| 19227 | Philosophy is a search for real truth [Peirce] |
| 14862 | Philosophy is more valuable than much of science, because of its beauty [Nietzsche] |
| 8226 | A well-posed problem is a problem solved [Bergson, by Deleuze/Guattari] |
| 2944 | If a question can be framed at all, it is also possible to answer it [Wittgenstein] |
| 9763 | For a good theory of the world, we must focus on our flabby foundational vocabulary [Quine] |
| 9198 | It is no longer possible to be a sage, but we can practice the exercise of wisdom [Hadot] |
| 9408 | Science studies phenomena, but only metaphysics tells us what exists [Mumford] |