Author: Brittain, Charles & Palmer, John Anderson
Title: The New Academy’s appeals to the Presocratics
Review/Collection: "Phronesis", 46, 1
Place edition: Williamsburg
Editor: Brill
Year edition: 2001
Pages: 38-72
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: [L'Année philologique] [Comment] Studies why the Academics were concerned with claiming the Presocratics as sceptical ancestors, and the precise manner in which they advanced this claim. Members of the New Academy presented their sceptical position as the culmination of a progressive development in the history of philosophy, which began when certain Presocratics started to reflect on the epistemic status of their theoretical claims concerning the natures of things. The Academics' dogmatic opponents accused them of misrepresenting the early philosophers in an illegitimate attempt to claim respectable precedents for their dangerous position. The ensuing debate over the extent to which some form of scepticism might properly be attributed to the Presocratics is reflected in various passages in Cicero's « Academica »
Works:
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4182663
Author initials: Brittain and al. 2001
Title: The New Academy’s appeals to the Presocratics
Review/Collection: "Phronesis", 46, 1
Place edition: Williamsburg
Editor: Brill
Year edition: 2001
Pages: 38-72
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy
Description: [L'Année philologique] [Comment] Studies why the Academics were concerned with claiming the Presocratics as sceptical ancestors, and the precise manner in which they advanced this claim. Members of the New Academy presented their sceptical position as the culmination of a progressive development in the history of philosophy, which began when certain Presocratics started to reflect on the epistemic status of their theoretical claims concerning the natures of things. The Academics' dogmatic opponents accused them of misrepresenting the early philosophers in an illegitimate attempt to claim respectable precedents for their dangerous position. The ensuing debate over the extent to which some form of scepticism might properly be attributed to the Presocratics is reflected in various passages in Cicero's « Academica »
Works:
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4182663
Author initials: Brittain and al. 2001
