Theory of Knowledge Tu/Thur 4/11

Ancient Skepticism

-Stoics = Religious Dogmatists
-Academic(moderate) - came from Plato/ Socrates - told by Oracle(Temple for God Apollo) @ Delphi no one is wiser than him (Plato's Academy)
-Skepticism was a reaction to stoicism
-Greco-Roman, "God exists and is fire" 4cBC-4cAD "In each of us is a spark of the divine"
-Knowledge is possible
-We should act ethically towards others

-Stoics = Religious Materialists/
Goal=Happiness through:
-Knowledge
-Controlling Reactions to circumstances

Extreme Rationalists apriori deductions
could give knowledge

socrates=epistemic=humility
Pyronnean-radical skeptics