[Note: I have begun collecting these various posts on the theme of philosophia under a topical link: True Philosophia, the Way of Life. You can click on the link to see all the posts, present and future, gathered in reverse chronological order under this theme.]
When looking at the six historical schools of philosophy in antiquity--Platonism, Aristotelianism, Cynicism, Epicureanism, Stoicism, and Skepticism--one is quite impressed with the absence of a particular mental condition that one takes for granted today. Becoming a disciple of one or another of these ancient schools was not a matter of first calmly, rationally and unbiasedly wei