PHILOSOPHER

Arcesilaus

315 BC - 240 BC

Arcesilaus

Arcesilaus (; Greek: Ἀρκεσίλαος; 316/5–241/0 BC) was a Greek Hellenistic philosopher. He was the founder of Academic Skepticism and what is variously called the Second or Middle or New Academy – the phase of the Platonic Academy in which it embraced philosophical skepticism. Arcesilaus succeeded Crates of Athens as the sixth scholarch of the academy around 264 BC. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arcesilaus has received more than 115,963 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Arcesilaus is the 229th most popular philosopher (up from 261st in 2019), the 198th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 247th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Philosopher.

Arcesilaus was a philosopher of the Skeptic school and is most famous for his argument that nothing can be known for certain.

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Page views of Arcesilaus by language

Over the past year Arcesilaus has had the most page views in the English wikipedia edition with 14,760 views, followed by Spanish (4,518), and Italian (3,677). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Pashto (348.61%), Slovenian (84.46%), and Kirghiz (74.14%)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Arcesilaus ranks 229 out of 1,267. Before him are Nikolai Berdyaev, Marsilius of Padua, Paul Feyerabend, Vyasa, Benjamin Constant, and Al-Jahiz. After him are Carneades, Roger Garaudy, Prodicus, Xenocrates, Judah Loew ben Bezalel, and Cleanthes.

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HPI: 66.89
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Prodicus
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Judah Loew ben Bezalel
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330 BC - 232 BC
HPI: 66.74
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Contemporaries

Among people born in 315 BC, Arcesilaus ranks 2. Before him is Theocritus. After him are Aratus, and Leonidas II. Among people deceased in 240 BC, Arcesilaus ranks 3. Before him are Euclid, and Callimachus. After him are Aratus, Zou Yan, and Posidippus.