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61Aristotle the philosopher of nature — David Furley 1 THE TREATISES ON NATURE The subject matter of the present chapter is what Aristotle has to say about the natural world the subject that in classical Greek is most accurately rendered as ta physika. But of course this includes many… …
62Marius the Epicurean —   Author(s) Walter Pater Country United Kingdom …
63List of topics in ancient philosophy — * Abderites * Academy * Acumenus * Aenesidemus * Aeschines Socraticus * Aetius (philosopher) * Albinus (philosopher) * Alcmaeon of Croton * Alexander of Aphrodisias * Allegory of the cave * Analogy of the divided line * Anaxagoras * Anaximenes of …
64Stoicism — A unified logical, physical, and moral philosophy, taking its name from the stoa poikile or painted porch in Athens where Stoic doctrine was taught. The first recognized Stoic was Zeno of Citium, who founded the school c. 300 BC. Other early… …
65Cleanthes — (c. 331–232 BC) Stoic philosopher, and second head of the Stoic school. Coming between Zeno of Citium, the founder, and Chrysippus, the ‘second founder’ of the Stoic school, Cleanthes has usually been accorded a relatively minor position. However …
66adiaphora — (Gk., indifferent) In Stoic philosophy things such as knowledge, power, pleasure, and health, in which value may be found but not quite in the way it is found in virtue, which alone is good or ‘chosen’. The distinction bears some relationship to… …
67scepticism — (Gk., skepsis, enquiry or questioning) Although Greek scepticism centred on the value of enquiry and questioning, scepticism is now the denial that knowledge or even rational belief is possible, either about some specific subject matter (e.g.… …
68Arcesilaus — (c. 316–242 BC) The founder of the middle Academy of Athens, and the first to break with the older Platonic cosmologies in favour of scepticism . The running battle between the Academy and the Stoics started with his attack on the basis of… …
69Stoicism — /stoh euh siz euhm/, n. 1. a systematic philosophy, dating from around 300 B.C., that held the principles of logical thought to reflect a cosmic reason instantiated in nature. 2. (l.c.) conduct conforming to the precepts of the Stoics, as… …
70Stoicism — Stoicism, a school of Hellenistic philosophy, was founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early third century BC. It concerns the active relationship between cosmic determinism and human freedom, and the belief that it is virtuous to maintain… …
