ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY 13: HELLENISTIC AGE
Starts 323 (death of Alexander), ends in 31 (end of Roman Republic, beginning of Roman Empire)
- Athens still polis, but with limited freedom, emergence of schools
- Alexandria begins philology, preservation of past texts
- commentaries, catalogues
- Pierre Hadot: Hellenistic age had political interests too
Schools:
- Academy
- Lyceum
- Garden (Epicurious)
- Stoa (Zeno)
[similar to Plato’s academy, which was then innovative, but likely modeled after the pythagoreans]
Itinerant/Travelling philosophers
- Diogenes: Cynicism (questioning social conventions, for return to a natural life, only ethical works)
- Pyrrho: Pirrhonism (skeptic inspired by Indians, truth and falsity are indistinguishable, must seek lack of anxiety, passions, affections, lack of pleasure and pain)