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The School of Doubt conducts a parallel philological and philosophical examination
of Cicero’s Academica, a work on Hellenistic epistemology written in
the first half of 45 bce. The treatise has a unique history, insofar as fragments
of two different versions are extant: the second of a two-volume first edition,
a dialogue known as the Lucullus; and, forty-six paragraphs of the first book of
a four-volume second edition, the Academic Books.1 Both versions ostensibly
explore a controversy that divided Plato’s Academy at the turn of the first century
bce, pitting Philo of Larissa against his pupil Antiochus of Ascalon. Their
dispute was centered on a disagreement over the foundation of knowledge. As
the story goes—a story in large part drawn from the pages of the Academica—
Antiochus took issue with certain teachings of Philo’s Academy, whose tradition,
developed during the school’s Hellenistic period, came to stand for the
unknowability of all perceptual and conceptual objects (impressions, or visa)
and for withholding assent to any such impression. These two postures, which
defined Academic teaching in the third and second centuries bce, were known
as akatalêpsia and epochê respectively. |
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