Follower of Diogenes
1Stoicism — Stoicism1 Brad Inwood 1 FROM SOCRATES TO ZENO More than eighty years passed between the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the arrival in Athens of Zeno in 312. Athenian society had undergone enormous upheavals, both political and social. The Greek… …
2Xeniades — ( el. Ξενιάδης) was the name of two people from Corinth who lived in the time of Ancient Greece:#A Greek philosopher from Corinth who lived in the time of Democritus, c. 400 BC. The little that we know of him is derived from Sextus Empiricus, who …
3cynic — n. 1. Follower of Diogenes. 2. Misanthrope, man hater …
4Plato — For other uses, see Plato (disambiguation) and Platon (disambiguation). Plato (Πλάτων) …
5Peripatetic school (The) — The Peripatetic school1 Robert W.Sharples THE HISTORY OF THE SCHOOL AND OF ARISTOTLE’S WRITINGS The history of Peripatetic philosophy after Aristotle falls into two phases, divided by the renewal of interest in the works we now possess after… …
6Sceptics (The) — The sceptics Michael Frede INTRODUCTION When we speak of ‘scepticism’ and of ‘sceptics’, we primarily think of a philosophical position according to which nothing is known for certain, or even nothing can be known for certain. There are certain… …
7Aeschines Socraticus — This article refers to the philosopher. For the Athenian orator, see Aeschines. Aeschines Socraticus or Aeschines of Sphettos (ca. 425 ca. 350 BCE) (Greek: polytonic|Αἰσχίνης, sometimes but now rarely written as Aischines or Æschines ), son of… …
8Epicureanism — Stephen Everson It is tempting to portray Epicureanism as the most straightforward, perhaps even simplistic, of the major dogmatic philosophical schools of the Hellenistic age. Starting from an atomic physics, according to which ‘the totality of… …
9Timon of Phlius — For the inspiration for Shakespeare s Timon of Athens, see Timon of Athens (person). Timon of Phlius, 17th century engraving Timon of Phlius (Greek: Τίμων, gen.: Τίμωνος; c. 320 BC – c. 230 BC) was a Greek skeptic philosopher …
10List of stoic philosophers — This is a list of Stoic philosophers, ordered (roughly) by date. The criteria for inclusion in this list is fairly mild. See also .3rd Century BC*Zeno of Citium (c. 334 262 BC), Founder of the Stoic school in Athens (c. 300 BC). *Persaeus (306… …
