Hume and Ancient Academic Scepticism
Chapter One of Hume’s Scepticism sets out a short history of Academic scepticism, tracing its development from Socrates and Plato’s ‘Old Academy’, through Arcesilaus’ ‘Middle Academy’, into Carneades’ ‘New Academy’, and Philonian scepticism, as well as Cicero and the divergent stream breaking off from the Academy that would become Pyrrhonist thought. Academic scepticism is set off from its stoic competitors. Chapter One crucially describes both the development of sceptical probabilistic thinking and, anticipating Hume, the non-dogmatic doxastic position developed by Clitomachus of Carthage in contrast to the dogmatic doxastic and probabilistic theory of Metrodorus of Stratonikiae, which anticipates Locke.
1899 ◽
Vol 47
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pp. 19275-19276
1892 ◽
Vol 34
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pp. 13832-13832
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