Carneades
Americannoun
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He made it his business to spread the knowledge of the doctrines of Carneades, who left nothing in writing himself.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
But even yesterday we heard that Carneades was in the habit, at times, of descending to say that a wise man would be guided by opinion, that is to say, would do wrong.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke
The third and fourth books probably contained the doctrines of Carneades and Philo, with Varro’s refutation of them, according to the principles of Antiochus.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
In this, Lucullus, who was a follower of the old Academy, thinks Carneades the most absurd and inconsistent of the two.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
The perplexity is old as the embassy of Carneades, young as the self-communings of Mazzini.
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)
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