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Egypt

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Lower Nile Valley (Egyptian Heartland)
Lower Nile Valley (Egyptian Heartland) map context within Egypt
0 philosophers
Nile Delta & Mediterranean Gate
Nile Delta & Mediterranean Gate map context within Egypt
2 philosophers
Nubian Nile Corridor
Nubian Nile Corridor map context within Egypt
0 philosophers
Upper Nile & Sudd Marshes
Upper Nile & Sudd Marshes map context within Egypt
1 philosopher

Philosophers of Egypt

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Origen of Alexandria in Andre Thevet's portrait collection

Origen of Alexandria

185 CE – 254 CE

Alexandria, Egypt

Alexandrian Christian Platonist of allegorical exegesis, Logos theology, free will, apokatastasis controversy, Scripture scholarship, Hexapla, and Contra Celsum.

Head of Plotinus from the House of the Philosopher

Plotinus

204 CE – 270 CE

Lycopolis (Upper Egypt)

Neoplatonic philosopher of the One, Intellect, Soul, emanation, return, henosis, beauty, evil as privation, contemplative ethics, anti-Gnostic polemic, and the Porphyrian Enneads.

Sextus Empiricus in an 1801 Riedel engraving

Sextus Empiricus

160 CE – 210 CE

Alexandria (probable)

Greek Pyrrhonian skeptic from Alexandria (probable) whose works preserve ancient arguments about suspension, signs, proof, criteria, and life without dogmatic certainty.