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Hellenistic philosophy

DOI
10.4324/9780415249126-A053-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-A053-1
Version: v1,  Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/hellenistic-philosophy/v-1

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The Hellenistic schools dominated the Greco-Roman world from c.300 bc to the mid first century bc, making it an era of great philosophical brilliance. The principal doctrinal philosophies were Stoicism and Epicureanism, but this was also the age in which scepticism emerged as a philosophical movement. The central issues of debate were the nature and origin of the world, the means to attaining truth and the ethical goal.

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Sedley, David. Hellenistic philosophy, 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-A053-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/hellenistic-philosophy/v-1.
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