Concept
Academy
Overview
institution of higher learning
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Academy, Academic, the School founded by Plato in ‘the most beautiful suburb of Athens’ (Thuc. ii. 34), 65, 104, 178, 264. Acanthus, Acanthian, a town of the Chalcidice, 94, 95. Achaeans, 102. Achaeus, 95. Achĕron, a river of the lower world, 227. Achilles, 294.
Plutarch, Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.
The author is tied to Academy in the knowledge graph; opens on Academy.
The next was to write and publish a pamphlet entitled "Proposals relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania." This I distributed among the principal inhabitants gratis; and as soon as I could suppose their minds a little prepared by the perusal of it, I set on foot a subscription for opening and supporting an academy. It was to be paid in quotas yearly for five years. By so dividing it I judged the…
Benjamin Franklin, Franklin's Autobiography
Names Academy several times; opens on Academy.
And the others, who according to the fashion of Plato himself were accustomed to hold their meetings and discussions in the Academy, which is a second Gymnasium, took their name from the place where they used to meet. But both these schools, being impregnated with the copiousness of Plato, arranged a certain definite system of doctrine, which was itself copious and luxuriant; but abandoned the Socratic plan of…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by
Names Academy twice; opens on Academy.
Philosophers who discussed Academy
- Georg Simmel
- Wilhelm Windelband
- Aenesidemus
- Frank Cameron Jackson
- Christian Wolff (philosopher)
- Intellectual
- Olympiodorus the Younger
- Nadia Maftouni
Related ideas
- Erasmus
- French language
- Carneades
- Florence
- Athena
- Philo of Larissa
- Treatise
- Athens
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Classical Athens
- Hero
- Heraclitus
- Agathias
- Council of Florence
- Internet
- Isaac Newton
- Iran
- Platonism in the Renaissance
- Academic discipline
- Vedas
- Gemistos Plethon
- Platonic Academy (Florence)
- Damascius
- Justinian I
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.