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Intrecci d'arte, 2023 The manuscript presented in this contribution, a Liber Sextus preserved in the Library of Congress in Washington DC (Ms. 28), has so far been overlooked by art historians.The stylistic analysis of the illustrative and decorative apparatus of the ...
Maria Alessandra Bilotta
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The modes of Agrippa: On the refutation of the ground of all knowledge
Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica, 2017 The modes expounded by the ancient sceptics became a point of reference for those who try to prove, reach any truth or justify any belief. Due to it, this paper analyses the objections of the sceptic philosophers later to Aenesidemus and previous to ...
Ignacio García Peña
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“Did Descartes Read Sextus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism?” A “Sceptical” Response
The European LegacyThis article has been invited by The European Legacy editors as a response to Ayumu Tamura’s “Did Descartes Read Sextus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism ?” which continues the promising lines of enquiry he has opened up into the possible influence of ancient ...
Paul O’Mahoney
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Nothing to Fear from this Thought: Montaigne, Pyrrhonism, and Reformation
Ideas y Valores, 2014 M. de Montaigne was a child of both the Renaissance and the Reformation, as well as a lucid follower of Sextus Empiricus. The article shows how Pyrrhonism led him to question the beliefs of his time and to abide by the prevailing customs and laws.
Manuel Tizziani
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Boundless Skepticism and the Five Modes [PDF]
, 2019 There is a difference between the tasks of interpreting Sextus Empiricus and contesting his arguments. Usually, one does the latter relying on some version of the former. Though this seems obvious, it is easy to make mistakes in this endeavor.
Rocha, Allysson V. L.
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Nietzsche's Conception of Skepticism as Intellectual Virtue and Vice
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1466-1485, December 2025.Abstract Recent approaches are unable to make full sense of Nietzsche's distinction between weak and strong skepticism (BGE 208–209; A54). In this paper, I propose an alternative interpretation. My suggestion is that this distinction is best understood in the context of his virtue epistemology.
Lorenzo Serini
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Some blunt instruments of dogmatic logic: Sextus Empiricus’s sceptical attack [PDF]
, 2017 Within a sort of conceptually homogeneous logical-epistemological arsenal that reflects a perspective marked by the dichotomy true/false, I would like to focus on one of the ‘logical’ sections of Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism, book II, namely:
Emidio Spinelli
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Respublica noumenon: Kant, Rousseau, and Plato's Republic
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 387-409, September 2025.Abstract This article examines the philosophical sources for Kant's interpretation of Plato's Republic and its impact on his conception of the ideal state. I argue that Kant's knowledge of Plato was not derived from Plato's writings, but from secondary accounts.
Michael Kryluk
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From rational creatures to the rational Creator: ancient and patristic analogies of the “fine-tuning” argument [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2017 In this article the author deals with the proofs of the existence of God, based on the fact of the presence of rational beings in the world. These proofs can be found in Greek and Roman Classical philosophy and early Patristics, and can be viewed as an ...
Alexey Fokin
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Early Pyrrhonism as a Sect of Buddhism? A Case Study in the Methodology of Comparative Philosophy [PDF]
, 2018 We offer a sceptical examination of a thesis recently advanced in a monograph published by Princeton University Press, entitled Greek Buddha: Pyrrho’s Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia. In this dense and probing work, Christopher I. Beckwith,
JOHNSON, Monte Ransome, SHULTS, Brett
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