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单词 middle academy
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Middle Academyn.

Brit. /ˌmɪdl əˈkadəmi/, U.S. /ˌmɪd(ə)l əˈkædəmi/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: middle adj., academy n.
Etymology: < middle adj. + academy n., after Hellenistic Greek Ἀκαδήμεια μέση. Compare New Academy n., Old Academy n.
(A name of) the mainly sceptic school of philosophy developed in the 3rd cent. b.c. by Arcesilaus (316/15–242/1 b.c.) when he was head of the Academy founded by Plato. Cf. New Academy n.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Greek scepticism > systems of
New Academy1579
Pyrrhonism1603
Middle Academy1660
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 992 He loued Platoes sect best, & did not much geue him selfe to the new or meane Academy as they call it, but altogether to the old Academy.]
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. iv. 33 Arcesilaus, Institutor and President of the middle Academy, seems to me to participate so much of the Pyrrhonian reasons, as that his Institution and ours is almost the same.
1744 W. Guthrie in tr. Cicero Morals Introd. p. xiii We are now arrived at the middle Academy, the Founder of which was Arcesilas.
1845 G. H. Lewes Biogr. Hist. Philos. II. viii. iv. 165 The Middle Academy and the New Academy we thus unite in one; although the ancients drew a distinction between them, it is difficult for moderns to do.
1970 Oxf. Classical Dict. (ed. 2) 95/1 The term ‘Middle Academy’ may also derive from Antiochus [of Ascalon].
1991 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 52 270 Plato is his paradigm for the Old Academy, Arcesilaus for the Middle Academy, and Carneades and Cleitomachus for the New Academy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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