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2017
Sextus and his Pyrrhonian Skeptic colleagues were not skeptics as that term is now understood; they did not deny that we have knowledge. They neither asserted nor denied any statement about how things are, but assented only to statements about how things appeared to them to be, not least because it appeared to them that appearances sufficed as a guide ...
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Sextus and his Pyrrhonian Skeptic colleagues were not skeptics as that term is now understood; they did not deny that we have knowledge. They neither asserted nor denied any statement about how things are, but assented only to statements about how things appeared to them to be, not least because it appeared to them that appearances sufficed as a guide ...
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Educating the Sceptic: Sextus Empiricus and Education
Paedagogica Historica, 1999Inspired by the major part of scepticism in recent philosophy of education, one of the sources of scepticism in classical antiquity is reconstructed in view of its educational consequences. It is the scepticism of Sextus Empiricus, one of the most elaborate and consistent forms on record.
Heyting, G.F., Mulder, E.
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2002
Abstract The subject is Sextus Empiricus, one the chief sources of information on ancient philosophy and one of the most influential authors in the history of skepticism. Sextus' works have had an extraordinary influence on western philosophy, and this book provides the first exhaustive and detailed study of their recovery, transmission,
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Abstract The subject is Sextus Empiricus, one the chief sources of information on ancient philosophy and one of the most influential authors in the history of skepticism. Sextus' works have had an extraordinary influence on western philosophy, and this book provides the first exhaustive and detailed study of their recovery, transmission,
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SEXTUS EMPIRICUS ON THE POSSIBILITY OF INQUIRY
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2008Abstract: In this paper I discuss Sextus Empiricus’ response to the dogmatists’ objection that the skeptics cannot inquire into philosophical theories and at the same time suspend judgment about everything. I argue that his strategy consists in putting the burden of proof on the dogmatists: it is they, and not the skeptics, who must justify the claim ...
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Sextus Empiricus on the Third Unproved
History of Philosophy & Logical AnalysisAbstract In his attack on Stoic Logic, Sextus Empiricus goes through each of the five Stoic unproveds and shows that they suffer from being redundant. An argument is redundant just in case it is valid if one of the premisses is removed: redundant arguments have one premiss too many.
Benjamin Morison
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The Classical Quarterly, 1980
Sextus Empiricus does not reveal anything of himself as distinct from ‘the Sceptic’ except in a passing and incidental way. He does not refer to his contemporaries, nor to his country, nor to any personal experiences, in such a way as to provide a definite picture of his life and times.
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Sextus Empiricus does not reveal anything of himself as distinct from ‘the Sceptic’ except in a passing and incidental way. He does not refer to his contemporaries, nor to his country, nor to any personal experiences, in such a way as to provide a definite picture of his life and times.
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The Diffusion of Sextus Empiricus's Works in the Renaissance
Journal of the History of Ideas, 1995This paper discusses the influence of Sextus Empiricus' works on Renaissance culture and the recovery of Pyrrhonism during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It investigates what primary and secondary sources were available at the time, and who knew and made use of such sources.
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Echoes of Sextus Empiricus in Nietzsche?
2020AbstractThe essay considers two related questions: (a) whether Sextus was a philosophical influence on Nietzsche, and (b) whether there are significant connections between their philosophies. On the first question, it is notable that while Nietzsche cites Sextus Empiricus numerous times in his early scholarly works, it is always for purely antiquarian ...
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Sextus Empiricus On Skeptical Piety
2011Considering the output of two philosophers who - at different times and in different ways - claimed to follow Pyrrho's philosophy and way of life, Timon of Phlius and Sextus Empiricus, the renunciation of writing seems not to be essential to Pyrrhonism.
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