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book45 BCE

Academica

Disciplines:
epistemology
theology/philosophy of religion

Summary

Cicero's philosophical dialogue presenting and defending Academic Skepticism — the view that certainty is unattainable and the proper attitude is suspension of judgment (epoché).

Core Contribution

Provides the most systematic ancient Latin account of Academic Skepticism, including the arguments against the Stoic kataleptic impression as a criterion of truth.

Historical Influences

Cicero

Intellectual Lineage

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Allied Works

Outlines of Pyrrhonism On the Nature of the Gods

Contemporaries & Peers

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Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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