PHILOSOPHERS'STONE.PART 31

Hellenistic science was influenced by amalgam of cultures,with town of Alexandria,a meeting point between east and west.Athens had been center of philosophy,still relevant after Socrates Plato and Aristotle,Alexandria now became center of science.Its extensive library became research center for biology,medicine,maths and astronomy.We shall move onto greater scholarship by highlighting various schools of philosophy,still extant today.Hence,new ideologies and thoughts have been devised over time and some of them have been summarised below.From the Cynics,Stoics,Epicureanism,Neoplatonism,Mysticism etc.Cynics,or Cynic School of philosophy was founded by Antisthenes around 400 B.C.in Athens.The story goes that Socrates had visited a market and stood gazing at the stall and all its wares been sold.He said"what a lot of things i dont need".That became the motto for the new school.He was a pupil of Socrates and was particularly interested in frugality. They entertained belief that true happiness lies in depending