Stephen A. White

Happiness in the hellenistic lyceum

Philosophy is no longer the pillar of fire going before a few intrepid seekers after truth; it is rather an ambulance following in the wake of the struggle for existence and picking up the weak and wounded. To this extent at least it occupied the place filled by religion today, and the post-Aristotelian schools, like modem churches, made no distinction of nationality or status or even sex. They offered to all by diverse ways a road to peace and happiness and a stronghold against the attacks of Fortune.