So called to distinguish it from Megara Hyblaea, in Sicily.ĥ i.e. Antigonus Doson, born 262 B.C. The successors of Euclides include Ichthyas, the son of Metallus, an excellent man, to whom Diogenes the Cynic has addressed one of his dialogues Clinomachus of Thurii, who was the first to write about preparations, predications and the like and Stilpo of Megara, a most distinguished philosopher, of whom we have now to treat. You would deserve your name of Cronus better So that you hastened to the shades below, And some time afterwards, as he was swimming in the Alpheus, the point of a reed ran into him, and of this injury he died.ġ10 I have composed the following lines upon him: 4 But as their provisions ran short and they found the place unhealthy, they left it, and for the rest of his days Alexinus lived in solitude with a single servant. P239 told that it was his intention to found a school which should be called the Olympian school. His pupils inquired why he took up his abode here, and were Hermippus says of him that he left Elis and removed to Olympia, where he studied philosophy. In particular he kept up a controversy with Zeno. Hence Timon says of him, with a side hit at the other Socratics as well: 2Įubulides the Eristic, who propounded his quibbles about horns and confounded the orators with falsely pretentious arguments, is gone with all the braggadocio of a Demosthenes.ĭemosthenes was probably his pupil and thereby improved his faulty pronunciation of the letter R.ġ09 Eubulides kept up a controversy with Aristotle and said much to discredit him.Īmong other members the school of Eubulides included Alexinus of Elis, a man very fond of controversy, for which reason he was called Eleuxinus. If it were drawn from similars, it is with these and not with their analogies that their arguments should deal if from dissimilars, it is gratuitous to set them side by side. He rejected the argument from analogy, declaring that it must be taken either from similars or from But all that is contradictory of the good he used to reject, declaring that it had no existence.ġ07 When he impugned a demonstration, it was not the premisses but the conclusion that he attacked. He held the supreme good to be really one, though called by many names, sometimes wisdom, sometimes God, and again Mind, and so forth. Hermodorus tells us that, after the death of Socrates, Plato and the rest of the philosophers came to him, being alarmed at the cruelty of the tyrants. He applied himself to the writings of Parmenides, and his followers were called Megarians after him, then Eristics, and at a later date Dialecticians, that name having first been given to them by Dionysius of Chalcedon because they put their arguments into the form of question and answer. HFS clients enjoy state-of-the-art warehousing, real-time access to critical business data, accounts receivable management and collection, and unparalleled customer service.106 Euclides was a native of Megara on the Isthmus, 1 or according to some of Gela, as Alexander states in his Successions of Philosophers. HFS provides print and digital distribution for a distinguished list of university presses and nonprofit institutions. MUSE delivers outstanding results to the scholarly community by maximizing revenues for publishers, providing value to libraries, and enabling access for scholars worldwide. Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social sciences content, providing access to journal and book content from nearly 300 publishers. With warehouses on three continents, worldwide sales representation, and a robust digital publishing program, the Books Division connects Hopkins authors to scholars, experts, and educational and research institutions around the world. With critically acclaimed titles in history, science, higher education, consumer health, humanities, classics, and public health, the Books Division publishes 150 new books each year and maintains a backlist in excess of 3,000 titles. The division also manages membership services for more than 50 scholarly and professional associations and societies. The Journals Division publishes 85 journals in the arts and humanities, technology and medicine, higher education, history, political science, and library science. The Press is home to the largest journal publication program of any U.S.-based university press. One of the largest publishers in the United States, the Johns Hopkins University Press combines traditional books and journals publishing units with cutting-edge service divisions that sustain diversity and independence among nonprofit, scholarly publishers, societies, and associations.
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