Plutarchs7/4/2023 ![]() It is one of our best sources for reconstructing the original Cyrenaic epistemological view and the considerations that may have led the Cyrenaics to hold it. Plutarch then imagines an Epicurean attempt to distinguish their view from the Cyrenaics’ stance and dismisses it.ĢThis section of the work is interesting in various ways. Next, in § 25 Plutarch turns to show that the criticisms which Colotes launched against the Cyrenaics are in fact problems which apply to the Epicureans’ epistemological views and that, far from landing blows against his opponents, Colotes has instead demonstrated various insurmountable obstacles to his own preferred philosophy. Plutarch first presents in § 24 what he takes to be Colotes’ rash and ill-informed criticism of the Cyrenaics’ epistemology and shows in what way Colotes has misunderstood them. dealing with Colotes’ attack on the Cyrenaics takes a familiar and obvious form. ![]()
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