The Academy or College of Philosophy

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Plato established the first academy in around 387 BCE. The Academy taught mathematics, dialectics, natural science and preparation or training for statesmanship. The Academy continued operating under different scholarchs (College presidents) and phases, most notably, skepticism introduced by Arscecilaus (315 0 241 BCE). This skepticism is in essence akin to the contemporary argument by postmodernists. Plato’s College of Philosophy was closed for good by Emperor Justinian along with other pagan schools in 529 BCE. This was the century when faith became triumphant over reason and society plunged into the centuries of age of darkness.

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