Crantor - Crantor Crantor was a Greek philosopher of the Old Academy, born probably about the middle of the 4th century BC, at Soli in Cilicia. He was a fellow-pupil of Polemo in the school of Xenocrates at Athens, and was the first commentator on Plato. He is said to have written some poems which he sealed up and deposited in the temple of Athens at Soli (Diog. Laërtius iv. 5. 25). Of his celebrated work On Grief, a letter of condolence to his friend Hippocles on the death of his children, numerous extracts have been preserved in Plutarch's Consolatio ad Apollonium and in the De consolatione of Cicero, who speaks of it (Acad. ~i. 44. 135) in the highest terms (aureolus et ad verbum ediscendus). Crantor paid.
Arcesilaus - Born at Pitane in Aeolia, he was trained by Autolycus, the mathematician, and later at Athens by Theophrastus and Crantor, by whom he was led to join the Academy. He subsequently became intimate with Polemon and Crates, whom he succeeded as head of the school. Diogenes Laertius says that he died of excessive drinking, but the testimony of others (e.g. Cleanthes) and his own precepts discredit the story, and he is known to have been much respected by the Athenians. His doctrines, which must be gathered from the writings of others (Cicero, es cad. 1. 12, iv. 24; De Orat. iii. 18; Diogenes Laertius iv. 28; Adv. Math. vii. 150, Pyrrh. Hyp. i. 233), who present an attack on the Stoic ctiavracria icarctX~irris1j (Criterion) and are based on the sceptical element,.
Atlantis - Carthaginians knew as Antilia. It is interesting that this name makes sense in Portuguese: ante-ilha meaning before/against-island. Proclus, the commentator of "Timaeus" mentions that Marcellus, relying on ancient historians, stated in his Aethiopiaka that in the Outer Ocean (the Atlantic) there were seven small islands dedicated to Persephone, and three large ones; one of these, comprising 1,000 stadia in length, was dedicated to Poseidon. Proclus tells us that Crantor reported that he, too, had seen the columns on which the story of Atlantis was preserved as reported by Plato: the Sais priest showed him its history in hieroglyph characters. Some other writers called it Poseidonis after Poseidon. Plutarch mentions Saturnia or Ogygia about five days' sail to the west of Britain. He added that westwards from that island, there were the.
Xenocrates - influence then dominant at Athens, Xenocrates declined the citizenship offered to him at the instance of Phocion, and, being unable to pay the tax levied upon resident aliens, was, it is said, sold, or on the point of being sold, into slavery. He died in 314, and was succeeded as scholarch by Polemon, whom he had reclaimed from a life of profligacy. Besides Polemon, the statesman Phocion, Chaeron (tyrant of Pellene), the Academic Crantor, the Stoic Zeno and Epicurus are said to have frequented his lectures. Xenocrates's earnestness and strength of character won for him universal respect, and stories were remembered in proof of his purity, integrity and benevolence. Wanting in quickness of apprehension and in native grace, he made up for these deficiencies by a conscientious love of truth and.
List of ethicists - Berry Maurice Blanchot Dietrich Bonhoeffer George Boole Gautama Buddha Mario Bunge Judith Butler Nasim Butt Brother Cadfael Miguel de Cervantes M. Umar Chapra Noam Chomsky Chu Hsi enlarged Confucian ethics to include women and children. Cicero Samuel Clarke Pierre Claude François Daunou Clement of Alexandria Etienne Bonnot de Condillac Confucius Crantor arranged "good" things Bernard Crick Dalai Lama Abraham ibn Daud Merryl Wyn Davies Hugo de Garis Rene Descartes Philip Doddridge Elliot N. Dorff Abdul Wahab Effendi Hamid Enyat Rudolf Christoph Eucken Johann Albert Fabricius Ismail al-Faruqi Nosson Zvi Finkel Owen Flanagan Michel Foucault Alexander Campbell Fraser Erich Fromm Buckminster Fuller Mohandas Gandhi Ghazali Carol Gilligan Newt Gingrich Victor Gollancz Thomas Hill Green Jurgen Habermas Hammurabi Henry Hazlitt Paul Hawken Claude Adrien Helvétius Frank Herbert Hergé Abraham Joshua Heschel Hierocles of.
