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Carneades' Pithanon And Its Relation To Epoche And Apraxia, Suzanne Obdrzalek
Carneades' Pithanon And Its Relation To Epoche And Apraxia, Suzanne Obdrzalek
The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter
Though the interpretation of ancient texts is notoriously difficult, Cameades presents what one might call a worst-case scenario. In the first place, he wrote nothing. His faithful disciple Clitomachus, attempting to play Plato to Cameades' Socrates, reportedly recorded Cameades' teachings in four hundred books. Not one remains. However, Clitomachus' attempt to make a philosophy of Cameades' anti-theoretical stance was not a complete failure; Cameades had a tremendous influence on the later Academy as well as the Stoa, and his views (or lack thereof) have been handed down to us by both Sextus Empiricus and Cicero. These sources are, nonetheless, problematic. …