Philo of Larissa (Greek: Φίλων ὁ ΛαρισσαῖοςPhilon ho Larissaios; 159/8–84/3 BC[1]) was a Greek philosopher. It is very probable that his actual name was Philio - with a second iota.[2] He was a pupil of Clitomachus, whom he succeeded as head of the Academy. During the Mithridatic wars which would see the destruction of the Academy, he travelled to Rome where Cicero heard him lecture. None of his writings survive. He was an Academic sceptic, like Clitomachus and Carneades before him, but he offered a more moderate view of skepticism than that of his teachers, permitting provisional beliefs without certainty.
^Woodruff, Paul (2019). "Ancient Scepticism" from Nicholas D. Smith's "The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History, Volume 1". Bloomsbury Academic. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-4742-5827-2.
^ K. Fleischer, Philo or Philio of Larissa?, in: CQ 72 (2022), pp. 222-232.
PhiloofLarissa (Greek: Φίλων ὁ Λαρισσαῖος Philon ho Larissaios; 159/8–84/3 BC) was a Greek philosopher. It is very probable that his actual name was...
important Academics were Arcesilaus, Carneades, and PhiloofLarissa. The most extensive ancient source of information about Academic skepticism is Academica...
period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death ofPhiloofLarissa in 83 BC. The Platonic Academy was destroyed by the Roman dictator...
suspension of judgment," were made use of by Cicero. By the time ofPhiloofLarissa, we find a tendency not only to reconcile the internal divergences of the...
prefigure the development of neoplatonism. Antiochus of Ascalon (c. 125–68 BC), was the pupil ofPhiloofLarissa, and the teacher of Cicero. Through his influence...
and PhiloofLarissa. Among the Romans, Cicero was thoroughly eclectic, as he united the Peripatetic, Stoic, and New Academic doctrines. Philo's successor...
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who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure...
diverged from Pyrrhonism. This skeptical period of ancient Platonism, from Arcesilaus to PhiloofLarissa, became known as the New Academy, although some...
philosopher in the tradition of Middle Platonism. Antiochus moved to Athens early in his life and became a pupil ofPhiloofLarissa at the Platonic Academy...
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account of Greek philosophy for a Roman audience, including creating a philosophical vocabulary in Latin. In 87 BC, PhiloofLarissa, the head of the Platonic...
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when Middle Platonist philosophers such as Eudorus and Philoof Alexandria hailed the rise of a "new" Pythagoreanism in Alexandria. At around the same...
disputed with Philo the Dialectician. It was perhaps the Dialecticians, Diodorus and Philo, who were the biggest influence on the development of Stoic logic...
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for his ability to memorize whole books and then recite them. Like PhiloofLarissa he seems to have pursued a more moderate philosophical scepticism....
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