The Oxford History Of The Classical World

The face of philosophy changed, but the Hellenistic age had left its mark. The systems of the Porch and
the Garden never lacked adherents, and modern philosophy has been influenced as much by them as by
the Lyceum or the Old Academy. Moreover, the conception of philosophy - of its scope, its subject-
matter, its methods - which we have inherited from Greece is not the generously ambitious ideal of
Aristotle but the narrower and more introspective notion of the Hellenistic schools.

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