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Carneades (kärnē`ədēz), 213–129 B.C., Greek philosopher, b. Cyrene. He studied at Athens under Diogenes the Stoic, but reacted against Stoicism and joined the Academy Academy, school founded by Plato near Athens c.387 B.C. It took its name from the garden (named for the hero Academus) in which it was located. Plato's followers met there for nine centuries until, along with other pagan schools, it was closed by Emperor Justinian in ..... Click the link for more information. , where he taught a skepticism similar to that of Arcesilaus Arcesilaus (ärsĕs'ĭlā`əs), c.316–c.241 B.C., Greek philosopher of Pitane in Aeolis. ..... Click the link for more information. . He denied the possibility of absolute certainty in knowledge; it is disputed whether he held that probable knowledge was adequate to guide a person's actions. He recognized three degrees of probability, and his teaching anticipated modern discussions of the nature of empirical knowledge. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The central dilemma that emerged was whether happiness and virtue, the advantageous and the morally right, went together (as originally supposed) or could actually be in opposition with one another, as Carneades seems to have argued. The discovery of a previously unnoticed analogy between the epistemological ideas of Robert Frost and the ancient Greek philosopher Carneades suggests that the voluminous contents of online databases may collectively be a new kind of primary source. |
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