Arcesilaus
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Arcesilaus (; ; 316/5–241/0 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic philosopher. He was the founder of Academic Skepticism and what is variously called the Second or Middle or New Academy – the phase of the Platonic Academy in which it embraced philosophical skepticism.
Key facts
- Philosopher.region
- Western philosophy
- Philosopher.era
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Philosopher.image
- Arcesilaus and Carneades.jpg
- Philosopher.caption
- Arcesilaus and Carneades
- Philosopher.name
- Arcesilaus
- Philosopher.birth_date
- 316/5 BC
- Philosopher.birth_place
- Pitane, Aeolis(modern-day Çandarlı, Izmir, Turkey)
- Philosopher.death_date
- 241/0 BC
- Philosopher.death_place
- Athens(modern-day Greece)
- Philosopher.school_tradition
- Academic Skepticism
- Philosopher.main_interests
- Epistemology
- Philosopher.notable_ideas
- Founder of Academic Skepticism
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Classical Athens
- Place of birth
- Pitane
- Place of death
- Athens
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Student of
- Crates of Athens
- Field of work
- philosophy
- Movement
- Platonism
- Image
- Arcesilaus and Carneades.jpg
- Residence
- Classical Athens
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- Commons category
- Arcesilaus
- date of birth
- 0315-01-01
- date of death
- 0240-01-01
- student
- Eratosthenes
- time period
- Hellenistic period
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- P8168
- Sid Going
- significant place
- Pitane
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Arcesilaus (; ; 316/5–241/0 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic philosopher. He was the founder of Academic Skepticism and what is variously called the Second or Middle or New Academy – the phase of the Platonic Academy in which it embraced philosophical skepticism.
Arcesilaus succeeded Crates of Athens as the sixth scholarch of the academy around 264 BC. He did not preserve his thoughts in writing, so his opinions can only be gleaned second-hand from what is preserved by later writers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arcesilaus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.