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Some notes on Sextus Empiri-cus’ method of approaching the téchnai [PDF]
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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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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Theoria, Volume 87, Issue 5, Page 1050-1066, October 2021., 2021 Abstract The article argues that there are different ways of justifying suspension of judgement. We suspend judgement not only privatively, that is, because we lack evidence, but also positively, that is, because there is evidence that provides reasons for suspending judgement: suspension is more than the rational fallback position in cases of ...
Alexandra Zinke
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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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¿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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The Role of Skeptical Evidence in the First and Second “Meditations”. Article 2. Certitudo
Sententiae, 2017 The author argues that according to Sextus Empiricus, (a) the "sensual" nature of the phenomenon is a metaphorical notion, since it is indistinguishably extended both to sensuality and thinking; (b) the phenomenon manifest itself with irresistible force ...
Oleg Khoma
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Sententiae, 2016 The first article of the cycle “The role of skeptical evidence in the First and Second ‘Meditations’” compares the Cartesian and Sextus Empiricus’ concepts of doubt in, respectively, “Metaphysical meditations” and “Outlines of Pyrrhonism”.
Oleg Khoma
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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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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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Outlines on Pyrrhonism by Sextus Empiricus: paradigm of terms and translation intentions
Sententiae, 2020 The article considers the principles underpinning the Ukrainian translation of Sextus Empiricus’ Outlines of Pyrrhonism and the translation strategy employed to render the fundamental concepts of his philosophy.
Lesia Zvonska
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