Old Academics
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the old Academics · the old Academy
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On Moral Ends
Philosophical school credited with the doctrine of living according to nature with virtue applied
Thence arose the opinion of the old Academics and the Peripatetics, that they should call the end of goods 'to live according to nature' — that is, with virtue applied, to enjoy the things first given by nature.
Tusculan Disputations
Philosophical school holding a view of goods similar to the Peripatetics
three kinds of goods, the greatest of the mind, the second of the body, the external the third, as the Peripatetics, and not much otherwise the old Academics;
present evils — but since he says the wise man is always happy, to whom it would not be permitted to say this, if he wished to be consistent, what is to be done by those who think that nothing is to be sought, nothing to be counted among goods, that lacks honour?
but I would gladly obtain this of you, that, if it be not troublesome — since no bonds of any fixed school hinder you, and you take a sip from all, whatever most moves you by the appearance of truth — that which a little before you seemed to exhort the Peripatetics and the old Academy, that without retraction they should freely dare to say that the wise are always happiest, I should like to hear i …