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

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 132 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTIOCHUS OF
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ASCALON (1st
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century B.C.)  ,
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Greek philosopher . His
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philosophy consisted in an
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attempt to, reconcile the doctrines of his teachers
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Philo of
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Larissa and Mnesarchus the Stoic . Against the
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scepticism of the former, he held that the
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intellect has in itself a sufficient test of truth; against . Mnesarchus, that happiness, though its
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main
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factor is virtue, depends also on outward circumstances . This electicisnt is known as the Fifth
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Academy (see ACADEMY, GREEK) . His writings are lost, and we are indebted for
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information to
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Cicero (Acad . Pr. ii . 43), who studied under him at
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Athens, and Sextus Empiricus (Pyrrh. hyp. i . 235) .
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Antiochus lectured also in
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Rome and
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Alexandria . See R . Hoyer, De Antiocho Ascalonita (
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Bonn, 1883) .

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