Dicaearchus
historical figure · 4 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
Dicaearchus of Messene
spoken of as
1 expressionDicaearchus of Messene1 mention
De Anima (Latin)
A certain Dicaearchus of Messene, and, among the physicians, Andreas and Asclepiades, thus did away with the principal, since they would have the senses themselves be in the mind, on whose behalf the principal is claimed.
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Tusculan Disputations
Greek philosopher who denied the existence of a soul distinct from the body.
What shall I say of Dicaearchus, who says the soul is nothing at all?
Dicaearchus, however, in that discourse which he reports as held at Corinth in three books, makes many learned men dispute in the first book;
of whom the one seems never even to have suffered pain, since he does not feel that he has a soul, while the other so delights in his own music that he tries to transfer it even to these matters.
Lucullus
Philosopher credited with holding that the soul does not exist.
Do we grasp what the soul is, where it is, in fine whether it is, or, as it seemed to Dicaearchus, is not at all?
On Moral Ends
Peripatetic philosopher named among the authorities Panaetius habitually invoked.
Fleeing this gloom and harshness of theirs, Panaetius approved neither the bitterness of their opinions nor the thorns of their arguing, and was in the one kind milder, in the other more illustrious, and always had on his lips Plato, Aristotle, Xenocrates, Theophrastus, Dicaearchus, as his own writings declare.
De Anima
Peripatetic philosopher who denied a ruling faculty in the soul.
A certain Dicaearchus of Messene, and, among the physicians, Andreas and Asclepiades, thus did away with the principal, since they would have the senses themselves be in the mind, on whose behalf the principal is claimed.