Carneades

Carneades in Wikipedia

Carneades (Greek: Καρνεάδης, Karneadēs, "of Carnea"; 214/3-129/8 BC[1]) was an Academic skeptic born in Cyrene and the first of the philosophers to pronounce the failure of metaphysicians who endeavored to discover rational meanings in religious beliefs. By the time of 159 BC he had started to refute all previous dogmatic doctrines, especially Stoi...

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Carneădes in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Καρνεάδης). A philosopher of Cyrené in Africa, founder of a sect called the Third or New Academy. The Athenians sent him with Diogenes the Stoic, and Critolaüs the Peripatetic, as ambassador to Rome, B.C. 155. Carneades excelled in the vehement and rapid, Critolaüs in the correct and elegant, and Diogenes in the simple and modest, kind of eloquenc...

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