Philo of Larissa : the last of the academic sceptics

Author(s)

• Brittain, Charles

Bibliographic Information

Philo of Larissa : the last of the academic sceptics

Charles Brittain

（Oxford classical monographs）

Oxford University Press, 2001

Note

Bibliography: p. [371]-388

Includes indexes

Description and Table of Contents

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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Details

• NCID: BA51713650
• ISBN:
  • 0198152981
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; Tokyo
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 406 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B598.P34
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Philon, of Larissa
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA07259649