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Notes on History of Philosophy I -- Phil A211 William Jamison - Instructor Lecture 1 Hellenistic and Roman Philosophy 1 Imagine the scope of the philosophies of this period as stretching from the insanely self centered to the social with all of the logical possibilities in between. Add to this range of intellectual opportunities the stress of empire and multiculturalism. We might picture the possibilities then as fitting a cognitive map with the Cynics on the one side and the Neo Platonists on the other. Skeptics may be the center with Epicurus and Lucretius on the side of the Cynics and Epictetus and the Stoics on the side of the Neo Platonists. These might also be sketched out as the possibilities still available to us in such multicultural environments such as we have today in Modern Europe and the United States. http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=21570 Hume review http://www.iep.utm.edu/p-macint/ Alasdair MacIntyre http://www.samharris.org/site/media_video/ interview http://books.google.com/books?id=AsPHR4-7Wc8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=inauthor:%22John+Dominic+Crossan%22&hl=en&ei=HYG-TKvYBY-isAPkia2iDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=augustine&f=false for the Cynics see page 72, for Epictetus see page 78
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