Philo of Larissa
Philo of Larissa | |
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Φίλων ὁ Λαρισσαῖος | |
Born | c. 159 B.C |
Died | c. 84 B.C |
School | Academic skepticism |
Institutions | Academy (scholarch) |
Philo of
Life
Philo was born in Larissa in 154/3 BC. He moved to Athens where he became a pupil of Clitomachus, whom he succeeded as head of the Third or New Academy in 110–109 BC. According to Sextus Empiricus, he was the founder of a "Fourth Academy",[3] but other writers refuse to admit the separate existence of more than three academies. He was the teacher of Antiochus of Ascalon who would become his adversary in the Platonist school.
During the Mithridatic wars Philo left Athens and took up his residence in Rome in 88 BC. In Rome he lectured on rhetoric and philosophy, and collected around him many eminent pupils, amongst whom Cicero was the most famous and the most enthusiastic.[4]
Philo was the last undisputed
Philosophy
None of Philo's works are extant; our knowledge of his views is derived from Numenius, Sextus Empiricus and Cicero. In general, his philosophy was a reaction against the Academic skepticism of the Middle and New Academy in favor of the dogmatism of Plato.
He maintained that by means of conceptive notions (
Notes
- ISBN 978-1-4742-5827-2.
- ^ K. Fleischer, Philo or Philio of Larissa?, in: CQ 72 (2022), pp. 222-232.
- ^ Sextus Empiricus, Hypotyp. i. 220
- ^ Cicero, ad Fam. xiii. 1, Academica, i. 4, Brut. 89, Tusculanae Quaestiones, ii. 3
- ^ Sextus Empiricus, Hypotyp. i. 235; Cicero, Acad. Quaest. ii. 6
- ^ Praeparatio Evangelicaxiv. 9.
- ^ Cicero, Acad. Quaest. ii. 4, 5, 23
References
- Dorandi, Tiziano (1999). "Chapter 2: Chronology". In Algra, Keimpe; et al. (eds.). The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 48. ISBN 978-0521250283.
Attribution:
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the Brandis, Christian A. (1870). "Philon (3. the Academic)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. p. 313.
Further reading
- Brittain, Charles, Philo of Larissa (Oxford University Press, 2001) ISBN 0-19-815298-1
External links
- Brittain, Charles. "Philo of Larissa". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.