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From, A History of Greek Philosophy, vol. I, The early Presocratics and the Pythagoreans, Cambridge University Press, 1962, pp. 1-25.
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Page 27
Meanwhile other schools Sceptic, Peripatetic, Academic continued, but may fairly be said to have been overshadowed by the Stoa. Under Carneades in the second century, a notable opponent of Stoicism, the Academy took a turn towards scepticism and disbelief in the possibility of certain knowledge. This was reversed under Antiochus, the teacher and friend of Cicero, who said of him that he was, 'si per pauca mutavisset, germanissimus Stoicus '. He held indeed that the differences between Academic, Peripatetic and Stoic teaching lay in words rather than substance. In general one may say that in spite of sharp mutual criticisms, there was always felt to be much common ground between these schools, and that, especially in the ethical field, Epicureanism stood isolated and apart, disapproved of by all.
Rome was now a world-power, and the Roman ethos making its impact everywhere. The Roman genius did not lend itself to originality in philosophy, yet the mere act of interpreting the Greek philosophical achievement in the Latin language, which was so successfully carried out by Cicero, was bound to bring its own modifications. Cicero's treatise on 'Duties', the Stoic καθήκοντα, though largely dependent on Panaetius, became a treatise 'De Officiis', and officium was a conception which already had a purely Roman history and associations. Again, the Stoic ideal of the human community was not quite the same when seen through the mirror of the Latin humanitas, and similar, either more or less subtle, differences exist between other pairs of equivalents such as the Greek πολιτεία and the Latin res publica.
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