Sceptical Education in the Hellenistic Academy
By Peter Osorio
I argue that at least some radical sceptics of the early Hellenistic Academy limited their methods in response to the following pedagogical view (PV): reducing the prejudicial effects of authority on one’s reasoning benefits one’s development in dialectical inquiry.
A Child’s Game and Sensory Perception in Minucius Felix’s Octavius
By Christopher S. van den Berg
This paper examines the interconnection of sensual perception and rhetorical argument in Minucius Felix’s apologetic dialogue Octavius (early third-century CE).