Elish-Eretrian School
Elish-Eretrische Schule (sometimes also Elish or Eretrische Schule ) is the name for a movement within ancient philosophy during the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. Chr.
Already in antiquity, historians of philosophy spoke of an Elish school beginning with Phaedo of Elis or an Eretrean school beginning with Menedemus of Eretria . In modern philosophical histories, these schools are usually referred to as the Elish-Eretrian school. In addition to Phaidon and Menedemus, Moschos and some otherwise little-known people are named as successors , namely Anchipylos, Pleistanos, Asklepiades of Phleius, Ktesibios of Chalkis and Pasiphon. Common philosophical views are in no case known - not even with regard to Phaedo and Menedemus. It is possible that the summary of these thinkers is a subsequent philosophical-historical construction.
reception
Already Cicero (* 106 BC; † 43 BC) counted the eretrics (as well as the Megarics , the Herilleians and the Pyrrhones ) among the long-forgotten philosophers.
Source collections
- Gabriele Giannantoni (Ed.): Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae , Volume 1, Bibliopolis, Naples 1990, Sections III-A to III-H ( online )
- Basil A. Kyrkos: Ho Menédēmos kaì hḗ Eretrikḕ schlḗ , Hetaireia Euboïkōn Spudōn, Athens 1980 (testimonies to Menedemos and his successors)
literature
- Klaus Döring : Phaidon from Elis and Menedemos from Eretria . In: Hellmut Flashar (ed.): Outline of the history of philosophy . The philosophy of antiquity , Volume 2/1, Schwabe, Basel 1998, pp. 238–245
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Döring: Phaedo from Elis and Menedemos from Eretria . In: Hellmut Flashar (ed.): Outline of the history of philosophy. The philosophy of antiquity , Volume 2/1, Schwabe, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-7965-1036-1 , pp. 238–245, here: p. 238.
- ↑ Cicero, De oratore 3.62.