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On Pyrrhonian Ends and Choices. A Comparative Analysis of DL 9.107-8 and M 11.141-67 [PDF]
Ideas y Valores, 2015 The article provides a comparative analysis of the final paragraphs of Diogenes Laertius’ Life of Pyrrho (9.107-8) and a chapter from the Adversus ethicos by Sextus Empiricus (M 11.[5].141-67).
Alfonso Correa Motta
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The Practical Price of Pyrrhonism
Philosophies, 2023 Sextus Empiricus presents Pyrrhonism as a skeptical lifestyle that is appealing, in large part, because of the tranquility it appears to afford. Addressing concerns about the practicality of such a lifestyle, Sextus suggests that Pyrrhonists can lead ...
Jeremy Byrd
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Neopyrrhonism as Metaphilosophy: A Non-Quietist Proposal
Praxis Filosófica, 2022 R. Fogelin (2002 [1976]; 1992 [1981]; 1994) was the first one to speak about “Neopyrrhonism” to link Wittgenstein and Sextus Empiricus. To him, Pyrrhonism “combines philosophical scepticism with scepticism about philosophy,
Guadalupe Reinoso
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Some notes on Sextus Empiri-cus’ method of approaching the téchnai
Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2017 We aim to show how Sextus Empiricus develops his attack on the téchnai in Against the Professors (M I-VI). First of all, we will outline the concept of stoicheîon (plural: stoicheîa) in Aristotle, for we think that the wide use of the concept by the ...
Rodrigo Pinto de Brito +2 more
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Skepticism: Historical and logical forms and perspectives [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Философия. Психология. Педагогика, 2022 Introduction. The permanent relevance of skepticism is due to its ancestral connection with philosophy. The problematic nature of the definition of «skepticism» in the conditions of post-non-classical ambiguity of modern social development determines the
Maslov, Vadim Mikhailovich
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¿Es Sexto Empírico un protagórico?
Tópicos, 2013 In the Outlines of Pyrrhonism Sextus Empiricus advances an argument similar to Descartes' dream, which seems commit Sextus to some sort of Protagorean relativism.
Claudia Lorena García
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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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Hume’s Academic Scepticism: A Reappraisal of His Philosophy of Human Understanding [PDF]
, 1986 A philosopher once wrote the following words:If I examine the PTOLOMAIC and COPERNICAN systems, I endeavour only, by my enquiries, to know the real situation of the planets; that is, in other words, I endeavour to give them, in my conception, the same ...
Wright, John P.
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Philosophy and Ataraxia in Sextus Empiricus
Peitho, 2013 This essay addresses two interconnected questions: (a) In what sense is Skepticism a philosophy? (b) How can ataraxia emerge out of epochē? Skepticism is a practice that articulates three moments: equipollence, epochē (suspension of judgment), and ...
Pascal Massie
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Kant on teaching philosophy [PDF]
, 2005 [Introduction] In 1765, Kant issued an Advertisement for the four lecture courses he would be delivering in the winter semester of 1765/66, on Metaphysics, Logic, Ethics, and Physical Geography (Kant 1905).
MacDonald Ross, G.
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