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Abstract My aim in this article is to elucidate the nature of a form of intellectual and practical neutrality that is not covered by existing accounts of suspension of judgment. After rejecting some inadequate characterizations of this attitude of neutrality, I provide a positive characterization of it: it is a successful effort to resist certain ...
Benoit Gaultier
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The Topographies of the Philosophical Path, or on the Consequences of Not Wearing Shoes
The purpose of the considerations presented in this article is to analyze the status of philosophy in terms of its problem-solving potential, or, more simply, to trace the possible topographies of a philosophical path.
Dariusz Kubok
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A Letter that Killeth: Gregory of Nyssa on How (Not) to Read Scripture, Platonically
Abstract In this essay, I explore the emergence of multicolumn Bibles in late antiquity, with a particular emphasis on Origen's Hexapla and its use by Gregory of Nyssa. I contextualise Gregory's use of multicolumn Bibles within the Origenian tradition and show that, in this intellectual context, multicolumn Bibles functioned as hermeneutical rather ...
ISIDOROS C. KATSOS
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Sextus Empiricus: against the ethicists
Sextus Empiricus is one of the major sources we have for the reconstruction and the study of the Hellenistic philosophy. His works contain wide-ranging excerpts of other philosophical schools, such as Stoicism and Epicureanism, but Sextus is also rightly
Boeri, Marcelo D.
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Sceptics and Language : phōnaí and lógoi in Sextus Empiricus
: Focusing a particular, but not exclusive attention on Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism, this paper lays stress on the sceptical double-faced attitude towards language-practice.
Spinelli, Emidio
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The paper argues that the (obviously fictional) quote attributed to the legendary Scythian sage Anacharsis in the work of the sceptic Sextus Empircus is more likely to be understood as some kind of ironical twist than as a substantial hint towards a ...
Friedrich Meins
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Les Hipotiposes, ou, Institutions Pirroniennes
de Sextus Empiricus, en 3 livres ; traduites du grec avec des notes qui expliquent le texte en plusieurs endroitsMöglicher Druckort gemäss Rero-BibliothekskatalogTitelblatt in Rot- und Schwarzdruck ...
Sextus
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The Evidence in Ancient Philosophy
Enargeia became a technical term –to which Cicero coined the neologism evidentia for its translation– in the Hellenistic Epistemology, so it seems, beginning from Epicurus.
Javier AOIZ
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ANCORA SULLO STATUTO VERITATIVO DELLA SENSAZIONE IN EPICURO
The main goals of this article are, on the one hand, to show the peculiar features of the Epicurean view of sense-perception (aisthesis), the first criterion of truth of Epicurus’ canonic; and, on the other hand, to critically discuss a recent ...
Francesco Verde
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What is wrong with lekta? Ancient critics of Stoic logic and language
In this paper, the Stoic theory of lekta is presented from the point of view of three main critical responses: the Peripatetics, Sextus Empiricus and an internal challenge posed by Seneca. The critiques focus on questions about language, but the detailed
Ada Bronowski
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