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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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"Przeciw etykom" Sekstusa Empiryka (Sextus Empiricus' "Against the ethicists")
, 2003 This is the introduction and the translation into Polish of the fragment from Sextus Empiricus' Against the Ethicists (AM XI, 42-167)
Nerczuk, Zbigniew
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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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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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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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Commentary on the Ukrainian translation of Sextus Empiricus' "Outlines on Pyrrhonism" (I, 1-13)
Sententiae, 2021 Some terms from Outlines of Pyrrhonism (I: 1-13) are problematic for Ukrainian translation. The commentary justifies the Ukrainian equivalents for those terms, in particular, "uyavlennia" for phantasia (not "vrazhennia"!), "pidvplyvnyi stan" for pathos ...
Oleg Khoma
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Sententiae, 2023 Review of Kuzminski, A. (2021). Pyrrhonian Buddhism: A Philosophical Reconstruction. London & New York: Routledge.
Olena Kalantarova
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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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