DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-A009-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
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Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/anaxarchus-c-380-c-330-bc/v-1
Article Summary
The Greek philosopher Anaxarchus of Abdera was a friend of Alexander the Great, teacher and friend of Pyrrho, and heroic victim of a tyrant. More a court philosopher than a school one, and an ambiguous personality, he seems to have mixed a highly original philosophical cocktail: a primarily ethical, cynically inclined outlook, combined with certain elements of Democritean ethics, epistemology and physics. His only attested work was a treatise On Kingship, his dominant interest perhaps being the theory and practice of relations between intellectual and ruler.
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Brunschwig, Jacques. Anaxarchus (c.380–c.330 BC), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-A009-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/anaxarchus-c-380-c-330-bc/v-1.
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Brunschwig, Jacques. Anaxarchus (c.380–c.330 BC), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-A009-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/anaxarchus-c-380-c-330-bc/v-1.
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