Greek Philosophy – Foolish Musings

Academic Scepticism

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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