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Hierax (Ἱέραξ) was a Middle Platonist philosopher who flourished in approximately the 2nd century CE whose work On Justice (Περὶ δικαιοσύνης) survives in eight separate excerpts made by Stobaeus.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 11 relations: Alcinous, Apuleius, Eclecticism, Karl Praechter, Maximus of Tyre, Middle Platonism, Peripatetic school, Platonism, Socrates, Stobaeus, Stoicism.

  2. Middle Platonists

Alcinous

In Greek mythology, Alcinous (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκίνους or Ἀλκίνοος Alkínoös means "mighty mind") was a son of Nausithous and brother of Rhexenor.

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Apuleius

Apuleius (also called Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis; c. 124 – after 170) was a Numidian Latin-language prose writer, Platonist philosopher and rhetorician. Hierax (Platonist) and Apuleius are Middle Platonists.

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Eclecticism

Eclecticism is a conceptual approach that does not hold rigidly to a single paradigm or set of assumptions, but instead draws upon multiple theories, styles, or ideas to gain complementary insights into a subject, or applies different theories in particular cases.

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Karl Praechter

Karl Praechter (17 October 1858, Heidelberg – 18 February 1933, Halle an der Saale) was a German classical philologist.

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Maximus of Tyre

Maximus of Tyre (Μάξιμος Τύριος; fl. late 2nd century AD), also known as Cassius Maximus Tyrius, was a Greek rhetorician and philosopher who lived in the time of the Antonines and Commodus, and who belongs to the trend of the Second Sophistic. Hierax (Platonist) and Maximus of Tyre are 2nd-century Greek philosophers and Middle Platonists.

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Middle Platonism

Middle Platonism is the modern name given to a stage in the development of Platonic philosophy, lasting from about 90 BC – when Antiochus of Ascalon rejected the scepticism of the new Academy – until the development of neoplatonism under Plotinus in the 3rd century.

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Peripatetic school

The Peripatetic school was a philosophical school founded in 335 BC by Aristotle in the Lyceum in Ancient Athens.

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Platonism

Platonism is the philosophy of Plato and philosophical systems closely derived from it, though contemporary Platonists do not necessarily accept all doctrines of Plato.

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Socrates

Socrates (– 399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and as among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought.

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Stobaeus

Joannes Stobaeus (Ἰωάννης ὁ Στοβαῖος; fl. 5th-century AD), from Stobi in Macedonia, was the compiler of a valuable series of extracts from Greek authors.

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Stoicism

Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy that flourished in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

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See also

Middle Platonists

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierax_(Platonist)