Philo of Larissa : The Last of the Academic Sceptics
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Oxford Classical Monographs
ISBN-10
0198152981
ISBN-13
9780198152989
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 5th, 2001
Print length
420 Pages
Weight
682 grams
Dimensions
14.80 x 22.40 x 3.50 cms
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European historyWestern philosophy: Ancient, to c 500
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This is the first book-length study of Philo (159-84 BC), the principal philosophical teacher of Cicero. Charles Brittain reconstructs the Platonic Academy's gradual rejection of scepticism under Philo's leadership, which prepared the way for the revival of Platonism in the first century AD. The Appendix contains a full collection of the testimonia and 'fragments' of Philo.
This is the first book-length study of Philo of Larissa. Philo (159-84 BC) was the leader of the Platonic Academy in its final period as an Athenian institution, and also the principal philosophical teacher of Cicero. Dr Brittain charts Philo''s gradual rejection of the radical scepticism of Carneades (concluding with his notorious ''Roman Books'' of 89 BC), and offers philosophical justifications for his initial position of modified scepticism and final advocacy of a fallibilist empiricism. Philo''s controversial epistemological views are constructed through their historical context in the late Hellenistic Academy, his wider thought on the history of philosophy, ethics and rhetoric, and his controversies with his pupils Antiochus and Aenesidemus. The appendix contains full testimonia and ''fragments'' of Philo.
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