Arcesilaus
c. 316 BCE–c. 241 BCE · Athens
Turned Plato's Academy skeptical; revived Socratic questioning and suspension of judgment (epoche) against Stoic claims to certainty.
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AthensAttica (Greece)
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About Athens
The intellectual capital of the Greek world, where Socrates questioned in the agora and four great schools—Plato's Academy, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa, and Epicurus' Garden—took root within a single square mile.
In Athens at the same time
Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Heraclides Ponticus, Aeschines, Philip of Opus, Aristoxenus, Theophrastus
In the same place & time
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The world in their lifetime
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