the Academy
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Lucullus
The philosophical school (New Academy) holding that nothing can be certainly known or perceived, the primary target of Lucullus's speech.
There remains one class of critics, who do not approve the method of the Academy — which we should take harder, if anyone approved any school of philosophy except the one he himself followed.
Wherefore all our discourse against the Academy is undertaken in order that we may retain that definition which Philo wished to overthrow;
For since the Academics held this as a decree (you perceive now that I am calling this a dogma), that nothing can be perceived, they ought not, he said, to waver in their own decree, as in other matters, especially since the whole sum stood upon it:
Stromata
Philosophical school founded by Plato, traced through Old and Middle phases.
Hearers of Polemo were Crates and Crantor, in whom the Old Academy from Plato came to an end.
For some hold that the younger ones from the Academy render the end to be the secure withholding of judgment toward the impressions.
Tusculan Disputations
The school of philosophy descended from Plato, defended by Cicero in his Academica and the site of the Tusculan disputations.
and as for what was to be said on behalf of the Academy, I think it has been set out accurately enough in the four books of my Academica.
And so, after we had given the forenoon to oratory, as we had done the day before, in the afternoon we went down into the Academy.
Adversus Hermogenem
Platonist philosophical school Hermogenes is said to have turned to.
For, turned from the Christians to the philosophers, from the Church to the Academy and the Porch, he took from there, from the Stoics, the notion of setting Matter alongside the Lord — Matter which, on his view, has itself always existed, neither born nor made, having no beginning at all nor end, out of which the Lord afterwards made all things.