Stilpo

Stilpo in Wikipedia

Stilpo (or Stilpon, Greek: Στίλπων; c. 360-c. 280 BC[2]) was a Greek philosopher of the Megarian school. He was a contemporary of Theophrastus, Diodorus Cronus, and Crates of Thebes. None of his writings survive, he was interested in logic and dialectic, and he argued that the universal is fundamentally separated from the individual and concrete. H...

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Stilpo in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

(Στίλπων). A celebrated philosopher, who was a native of Megara, and taught philosophy in his native town. He is said to have surpassed his contemporaries in inventive power and dialectic art, and to have inspired almost all Greece with a devotion to the ethical Megarian philosophy, dwelling especially upon the conception of virtue and its consider...

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