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Old Aˈcademy
Also old Academy.
[Academy 2.]
The school of philosophy founded by Plato in the fourth century b.c., as distinguished from schools founded by later Heads of the Academy, the Middle Academy of Arcesilaus, and the New Academy of Carneades. So Old Acaˈdemic n. and a.
1702S. Parker tr. Tully's Five Bks. of De Finibus v. 281, I am..well pleas'd that you've fallen upon so seasonable a Subject of Discourse, my Cousin being ambitious of a right Notion of that Hypothesis which the Old Academicks and Peripateticks you speak of, propagated about Moral Ends. 1744W. Guthrie tr. Cicero's Academical Treatises in Morals of Cicero 304 If it were not too much Trouble, I should desire to hear anew, from your Mouth, both that and the whole System of the old Academy. Ibid. 316 The old Academics did not hold that all Virtue consisted in Reason. 1811W. Ward Acct. Writings, Relig. & Manners Hindoos I. 357 This was the doctrine taught by Anaxagoras, and after him by Plato, and the whole Old Academy. 1874J. S. Reid Cicero's Academica p. xviii, It is a positive duty to discuss all aspects of every question, after the example of the Old Academy and Aristotle. 1876Alleyne & Goodwin tr. Zeller's Plato & Older Acad. xvi. 617 The Old Academy had even then, in many of its members, departed very far from genuine Platonism. 1885J. S. Reid Cicero's Academica (new ed.) 15 Varro evidently means that Cicero, having in earlier works copied the writings of ‘Old Academic’ philosophers, is about to draw on the literary stores of the New Academy. 1908Encycl. Relig. & Ethics I. 59/2 The ‘Old Academy’ carried on the discussion of the problems which Plato had raised in his oral teaching. 1937Oxf. Compan. Classical Lit. 2/1 The Academy under these leaders was known as the Old Academy. 1950F. Mayer Hist. Ancient & Medieval Philos. xiv. 198 Conventionally, the Platonic school is divided into three periods. The first is the period of the Old Academy, which lasted from 347 b.c. to 250 b.c. 1974A. A. Long Hellenistic Philos. v. 224 Antiochus saw a very sharp distinction between the Old and the New Academy. |