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do you Hi, I'm Peter Adamson, and you're listening to the History of Philosophy podcast brought to

you with the The Know Nothing Party, the Skeptical Academy.

Everybody loves a good rivalry.

Ali versus Foreman, the Montague versus the Capulates,

Gryffendor versus Slytherin, and the

Capulates, Giffendor versus Slytherin.

And the history of philosophy too has its rivalries.

Think of Plato versus the Sophists,

the rationalists versus the empiricists or Nietzsche versus God.

Few philosophical rivalries though have been as central to their era as the rivalry between

the Stoics and the skeptics, a dispute which ran for generations from the early Hellenistic

period down to the time of the Roman Empire.

Julius Caesar set Rome on the path towards Empire by assuming the role of dictator in the middle of the first century BC.

One of his critics was the great orator, lawyer, and intellectual Cicero.

Cicero wrote works on philosophy throughout his career, especially during moments of

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