Aeschines of Neapolis

Aeschines of Neapolis was an ancient Greek philosopher. He lived in the second half of the 2nd century BC in Athens.

From information supplied by Diogenes Laertius doxographers shows that Aeschines of " Neapolis " was born; around which the city of that name is, is unknown. Diogenes reported that Aeschines of the Platonic Academy in Athens and belonged to a student of the Melanthios of Rhodes was a student of the famous philosopher Carneades. Carneades had led the Academy until his resignation for health reasons 137/136 BC as Scholarch. According to an anecdote reported by Plutarch told Aeschines, that he - what was doubted by opponents - was a pupil of Carneades; he took part in the courses, as the Scholarch was already weakened by his old age. Accordingly, he was among the youngest pupils of Carneades.

The Roman writer Cicero reported that around 110 BC the Platonic Academy was in the judgment of contemporaries in bloom and that Aeschines then belonged to the prominent representatives of this school of philosophers.

From the philosophy of Aeschines nothing is handed down. In his time, the academy was in the era of skepticism, whose main representatives Carneades belonged ( " academic skepticism "). Therefore, it can be assumed that even Aeschines was one of the skeptics who deny that there are philosophical assertions whose truth can be proved.