A treatise named for this place preserves an argument based on the “indiscriminability” of pairs of eggs, as well as the “inactivity objection” that faced a position named for this place. A leader of this place opposed ideas of “natural justice” since a shipwrecked sailor would be a fool to not kill a weaker man clinging to a plank of wood. Augustine’s first work is a dialogue “against” a tradition named for this place that promoted reliance on pithanon, or the “probable,” in the face of acatalepsia. Due to scholarchs like Arcesilaus (“ar-sess-ih-LAY-us”) and Carneades, this place names the more extreme of the two main traditions of ancient skepticism. Justinian closed this place, to which a plucked chicken was once brought to ridicule a definition of man as a “featherless biped.” For 10 points, name this school in a grove outside Athens that was founded by Plato. ■END■
ANSWER: Academy [or Platonic Academy; or Akademía; accept New Academy or Third Academy or Old Academy; accept academic skepticism or Against the Academicians or Academica; prompt on the School of Athens until “Athens” is read] (The first sentence refers to Cicero’s Academica.)
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