Cicero (on the Stoics) · 106–43 BCE
Tusculan Disputations 2 ¶2 — Cicero (on the Stoics)
From “On Bearing Pain”
Translation by C. D. Yonge (1853)
Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 2 ¶2
But I have answered the detractors of philosophy in general, in my Hortensius. And what I had to say in favor of the Academics, is, I think, explained with sufficient accuracy in my four books of the Academic Question.
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Cicero (on the Stoics), Tusculan Disputations 2 ¶2, tr. C. D. Yonge (1853)
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AI-written notesA brief note pointing readers to the author's other works, one defending philosophy in general and four books defending the Academic school's approach of weighing probabilities.
Older wording
- “Academics”
- — followers of Plato's school, who favored probability over certainty
Themes and situations
- Learning and progress
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