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Gorgias' Revising of Ancient Epistemology: on Non-Being by Gorgias and its Paraphrases

Archai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2021
The philosophical nature of the two versions of paraphrasing the Gorgias’ treatise On Non-Being — the skeptical version by Sextus Empiricus and the peripatetic version by an anonymous author — are discussed.
Marina Volf
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Epicurus and Aesthetic Disinterestedness [PDF]

, 2017
: Aesthetic disinterestedness is one of the central concepts in aesthetics, and Jerome Stolnitz, the most prominent theorist of disinterestedness in the 20th century, has claimed that (i) ancient thinkers engagement with this notion was cursory and ...
Aiste, Celkyte
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LA RAPPRESENTAZIONE CATALETTICA NELLA STOA POST-CRISIPPEA

Lexicon Philosophicum, 2018
The article aims to evaluate some appreciable contributions by post-Chrysippean Stoics to the theory of cognitive (kataleptic) impression and its role as a criterion of truth.
Francesca Alesse
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Doubt Undogmatized:Pyrrhonian Scepticism, Epistemological Externalism and the "Metaepistemological" Challenge [PDF]

, 2000
It has become almost a conventional wisdom to argue that Cartesian scepticism poses a far more radical sceptical threat than its classical Pyrrhonian counterpart.
Pritchard, Duncan
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Synanaireĩsthai e Aufheben: alguns aspectos das dialéticas platônica e hegeliana

Kriterion, 2010
Explico, primeiramente, lançando mão dos textos de Platão, Aristóteles e Sexto Empírico, o sentido de synanaire)sthai no contexto da identificação das dimensões do ser e das faculdades da alma.
Leonardo Vieira
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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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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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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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El problema de la aridad en la lógica estoica: El caso de la disyunción [PDF]

, 2016
Both ancient sources and contemporary authors seem to agree, in general, that the Stoic disjunction was exclusive. The problem is that some ancient sources inform that the Stoics also considered disjunctions with more than two disjuncts and stated that ...
López-Astorga, Miguel
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Doubting Thomas: Aquinas on Doubt and the Act of Faith

International Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 310-330, July 2025.
Abstract Several modern theologians affirm that doubt is compatible with faith, even as authoritative voices from the Christian tradition deny this. While Thomas Aquinas is often seen as an exemplar of the traditional view, few scholars have devoted serious attention to the nature of doubt in Thomas’ thought.
Patrick X. Gardner
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