Platonic+Philosophy
81Megarian school of philosophy — The Megarian school of philosophy was founded by Euclides of Megara, one of the pupils of Socrates.Two main elements went to make up the Megarian as a doctrine. Like the Cynics and the Cyrenaics, Euclides started from the Socratic principle that… …
82Anamnesis (philosophy) — Part of a series on …
83Platonia (philosophy) — In Julian Barbour s book The End of Time, Platonia is the name given to his hypothetic entity of a timeless realm containing every possible Now or momentary configuration of the universe. The term can also be applied more generally to the world… …
84Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus — (c. 475/480–524) Roman philosopher and theologian. Born in Rome of an aristocratic family, the son of a consul (and father of two more), Boethius served as consul and the principal minister for Theodoric the Ostrogoth, who ruled Italy from 493 to …
85Socrates — (c. 470–399 BC) The engaging and infuriating figure of the early dialogues of Plato, Socrates represented the turning point in Greek philosophy, at which the self critical reflection on the nature of our concepts and our reasoning emerged as a… …
86immortality — The condition of being exempt from death or destruction, of living for ever. Personal immortality entails that after our death (as identified by others) we ourselves shall enjoy experiences, possibly after an interval, and shall live another life …
87Antiochus of Ascalon — (c. 130–68 BC) Eclectic Hellenistic philosopher. Antiochus maintained the essential agreement of the opposed schools of philosophy of his time. His decisive break with Philo of Larissa arose from his conviction that the scepticism of the Academy… …
88Confucianism — The practical philosophy derived from the teachings of Confucius, influential in China and other Far Eastern countries. Confucianism was the state orthodoxy in China until the revolution of 1911. It teaches that harmony is found by following the… …
89Academy of Athens — Teaching college founded by Plato, around 387 BC. Although knowledge of its organization is fragmentary, it appears to have favoured a teaching method based on discussion and seminars. The fundamental studies were mathematics and dialectic. It is …
90Academy of Florence — Circle gathered around Ficino between 1462 and 1494, in a villa at Careggi put at their disposal by Cosimo de’ Medici. It was a central intellectual influence in the Italian Renaissance, its main activities being the translation, study, and… …
