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552: 401:. He was the first classical author to write a doxography, a compendium of a variety of intellectual views. This attempted to contextualise Jain thoughts within the broad framework. It interacted with the many possible intellectual orientations available to Indian thinkers around the 8th century. 74:
A great many philosophical works have been lost; our limited knowledge of such lost works comes chiefly through the doxographical works of later philosophers, commentators, and biographers. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy lists the following works as being representative doxographies:
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discusses numerous philosophies including several in Persia and India. Its author appears to belong to a Persian Sipásíán tradition which differs somewhat from orthodox Zoroastrianism. Its authorship is disputed. Some scholars have suggested that Kay-Khosrow Esfandiyar, the son of
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were works whose purpose was to depict the philosophers of different schools in terms of a line of succession of which they were a part. From the 3rd to the 1st centuries BC there were
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also act as doxographers, as their comments on the ideas of their predecessors indirectly tell us what their predecessors' beliefs were. Plato's
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In addition to these, there were often histories of single schools. Such works were created by
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Islamic doxography is an aggregate of theosophical works (like
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Index

Successions of Philosophers
Greek
classical
historians
philosophers
scientists
Hermann Alexander Diels
Cicero
Academica
De Finibus
De Natura Deorum
De Fato
De Officiis
Aetius
Vetusta Placita
Clement of Alexandria
Stromateis
Diogenes Laertius
Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
Hippolytus of Rome
Refutation of All Heresies
Plato
Aristotle
Defense of Socrates
Anaxagoras
Greek
Antigonus of Carystus
Sotion
Heraclides Lembos
Sosicrates

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