The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.
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The history of philosophy, in eight parts by Thomas Stanley.
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Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.
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London :: Printed for Humphrey Moseley and Thomas Dring :
1656.
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Philosophy, Ancient -- Early works to 1800.
Philosophy -- History.
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ANTIOCHVS.
a 1.1ANTIOCHUS was an Ascalonite,b 1.2 brother of Aristus,
Disciple of Philo. He lived with L.c 1.3Lucullus, the Quae∣stor
and Generall; he was also a great friend tod 1.4Atticus, whom
he invited to the Academy. He is named by Sextus Empericus,
as Constitutor of a fifth Academy: For, ase 1.5Plutarch saith, he fell
off from the Sect of Carneades, either moved by the evidence of
sense, or, as some thought, by ambition, and dissention with
the Disciples of Clitomachus and Philo. So that with some little
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alteration, he made use of the Doctrines of the Stoicks; and
f 1.6 though he were called an Academick, he had been, but for
some alterations, an absolute Stoick;g 1.7 whence it was said of
him, He taught the Stoicall Philosophy in the Academy; for he mani∣fested,
that the Doctrines of the Stoicks were in ••lato. In his old
age, saithh 1.8Cicero, he betook himselfe to the old Academicks, for∣saking
the new,i 1.9 and diligently enquiring into the opinion of
the Antients,k 1.10 endeavoured to follow Aristotle and Xenocrates,l 1.11 professing, that the Stoicks and Peripateticks agreed in the thing,
and differed only in words. To which effect Cicero mentions a
Book which he sent to Balbus: He wrote alsom 1.12 another against
his Master Philo, entituled Sosus.n 1.13Cicero being at Athens heard
him, and was much taken with the eloquence and volubility
of his discourse, (o 1.14 declaring him to be the most polite and acute
of all Philosophers in his time)p 1.15 but not with the new Doctrine
which he introduced.
Thus far there is a continued series of the Academick Phi∣losophers.