PHI 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Academic Skepticism, Beatitudes, Stoicism
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Virtue: sermon on the mount from matthew"s gospel: these are beatitudes (virtues, blessed, and sometimes happiness are used in reference to virtue, not exactly the same ideas that aristotle had. Aristotle contrasted virtue with vice: also see sermon on the plain from the gospel of luke. Contrasts blessed are you with woe to you . Philosophers, intellectuals, etc: hypatia was stripped and murdered with roof tiles. There was another exception to the old white men rule: epictetus was a slave, but also philosopher, one of the most well-known stoics. Academic skepticism: the limits of knowledge: based on two main tenets: 2) humans should suspend beliefs about everything: arecilaus and carmeades. They were the main proponents of this. They were heads of the academy after plato"s death, at certain points: academic skepticism focused on dialogues that were literary representations of. Socrates: new academic skeptics were taken with the idea from the apology:
