Philosophy 1300E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sextus Empiricus, Epicureanism, Stoicism

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1300E
• Professor: Georgia Mouroutsou

Document Summary

Back to socrates: philosophy was the cure for double ignorance, and philosophy was a therapy of the soul. "we must not make a pretence of doing philosophy, but really do it; for what we need is not the semblance of health but real health" - epicurus. The hellenistic period: the historical period: after the death of alexander the great (323 bce) to the emergence of the. Roman empire (31 bce: alexander following the second best life; life of action. Two famous pieces of hellenistic art: aphrodite of melos, the winged victory of samothrace. Hellenistic schools: plato and (so(cid:272)rates(cid:895) a(cid:374)d aristotle (cid:271)ehi(cid:374)d us , the three main schools in athens during the hellenistic period, the epicurean school epicurus, the stoi(cid:272) s(cid:272)hool (cid:894)(cid:374)a(cid:373)ed after the pai(cid:374)ted por(cid:272)h/poikile stoa(cid:895) the later stoi(cid:272)s (cid:894)epi(cid:272)tetus, 55-135 ce: the skepti(cid:272) s(cid:272)hool the later skeptics (sextus empiricus, 160-210 ce) And there are many things that can get in the way.