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Ideas of Carneades, by Text

[Greek, 214 - 129 BCE, Born at Cyrene, in North Africa. Head of the New Academy in Athens. Wrote nothing, but Clitomachus preserved his arguments.]

174BCE

works (all lost)

p.10

7398

Carneades said that after a shipwreck a wise man would seize the only plank by force

p.505

2666

Carneades' pinnacles of philosophy are the basis of knowledge (the criterion of truth) and the end of appetite (good)

fr 41-42

p.91

15825

Carneades denied the transitivity of identity