Description: 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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EAN: 9780198152989
UPC: 9780198152989
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Book Title: Philo of Larissa: The Last of the Academic Sceptic
Number of Pages: 420 Pages
Publication Name: Philo of Larissa : the Last of the Academic Sceptics
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2001
Subject: History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient & Classical
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.4 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Author: Charles Brittain
Item Length: 8.9 in
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
