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ANTIOCHUS OF ASCALON (1st century B.C.)

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ANTIOCHUS OF See also:ASCALON (1st See also:century B.C.) , See also:Greek philosopher. His See also:philosophy consisted in an See also:attempt to, reconcile the doctrines of his teachers See also:Philo of See also:Larissa and Mnesarchus the Stoic. Against the See also:scepticism of the former, he held that the See also:intellect has in itself a sufficient test of truth; against. Mnesarchus, that happiness, though its See also:main See also:factor is virtue, depends also on outward circumstances. This electicisnt is known as the Fifth See also:Academy (see ACADEMY, GREEK). His writings are lost, and we are indebted for See also:information to See also:Cicero (Acad. Pr. ii. 43), who studied under him at See also:Athens, and Sextus Empiricus (Pyrrh. hyp. i. 235). Antiochus lectured also in See also:Rome and See also:Alexandria. See R. Hoyer, De Antiocho Ascalonita (See also:Bonn, 1883).

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