Critolaus
historical figure · 5 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Critolaus of Phaselis
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Stromata
Peripatetic philosopher in the succession.
Him Theophrastus succeeds, him Strato, him Lyco, then Critolaus, then Diodorus.
And Critolaus, himself too a Peripatetic, said it is the perfection of a life flowing well according to nature, indicating the threefold perfection filled up out of the three kinds.
These men Critolaus of Phaselis, not amiss, called "word-fighters.
On Moral Ends
A Peripatetic philosopher praised for gravity and eloquence but noted for departing from his school's traditional institutions.
Critolaus wished to imitate the ancients, and indeed is nearest in gravity, and his discourse overflows;
On the Nature of the Gods
Greek Achaean League leader whose actions led to the destruction of Corinth by Rome.
Critolaus, I say, overthrew Corinth, Hasdrubal Carthage;
Tusculan Disputations
Peripatetic philosopher known for the image of a balance weighing mental goods against bodily and external goods.
At which point I ask what force that balance of Critolaus has, who, when he places on the one scale the goods of the mind, on the other those of the body and external things, thinks that scale of the goods of the mind weighs down so much that it would press down earth and seas.
De Anima
Peripatetic philosopher who held the soul made of a 'fifth substance'.
And I do not mean only those who fashion it out of manifest bodily things — as Hipparchus and Heraclitus out of fire, as Hippo and Thales out of water, as Empedocles and Critias out of blood, as Epicurus out of atoms (if atoms too compose corporealities by their conjunction), as Critolaus and his Peripatetics out of some fifth substance I know not what (if that too is a body, since it includes bod …