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Tag: Greek Philosophy

March 14, 2020 Greco Roman

Academic Scepticism

Towards the end of the 4th Century BCE, the Academy in Athens changed. The Platonists moved away from the metaphysical

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March 7, 2020 Greco Roman

Zeno and Stoicism

Beginning in the third century BCE, stoicism developed originally from its cynic roots into a fully-fledged philosophical school. It came

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January 21, 2020 Greco Roman

Isocrates and Rhetoric

Isocrates was a contemporary of Plato and one of the finest rhetoricians of the classical world. Although maligned as a

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January 20, 2020 Greco Roman / Uncategorized

Old Academy Platonism

After Plato’s death, the school he established – the Academy – continued to develop upon the esoteric cosmological and metaphysical

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January 18, 2020 Greco Roman

Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War

Considered by many to be the founding figure of “scientific” history, and probably the second most famous ancient historian after

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January 14, 2020 Greco Roman

Antisthenes and the Cynics

Founded by Antisthenes, a student of Socrates, the Cynics would be a minor philosophical school throughout the Greco-Roman classical period.

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December 14, 2019 Ancient Near East / Greco Roman

Euclides and the Megarian School

Secondary sources David Sedley, The Megarian School – REP Susanne Bobzien, The Dialectical School – SEP

May 29, 2018 Aristotle / Greco Roman

On Choice

A reflection on Aristotle’s On the Soul There is a significant issue that lies at the root of the monistic

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May 28, 2018 Aristotle / Greco Roman

On Responsibility

A reflection on Aristotle’s Meteorology I have in recent reflections placed myself in the camp of the monists – seeing

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