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Protagoras: Pioneer of Relativism or Pyrrhonian Skepticism? [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
Protagoras has often been considered a relativist because he believed that man is the measure of all things (MM). This paper aims to show that focusing on MM and ignoring his other claims, which should be taken to be as epistemologically important as MM,
Iman Khodafard   +3 more
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Reflexions on the Against the Rethoricians by Sextus Empiricus [PDF]

open access: yesBoletim de Estudos Clássicos, 2014
Interpretação geral de Contra os retóricos (Adv. Rhet. ou M2), do filósofo/médico cético Sexto Empírico (c. II‘III d.C.) aplicando o mecanismo da "via média". Assim, esta obra de Sexto é abordada passo‘a‘passo, demonstrando os dois grandes movimentos refutativos que atravessam o livro: 1‘ o ataque à retórica enquanto techne e 2‘ enquanto produtora da ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Jules Vuillemin et la morale du pyrrhonisme

open access: yesPhilosophia Scientiæ, 2016
In the first part of his 1985 paper “Une morale est-elle compatible avec le scepticisme?”, Jules Vuillemin puts forward an interpretation of the scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis and asks whether this is compatible with an ethical life.
Lorenzo Corti
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Einführender Kommentar zu Sextus Empiricus' »Grundriss der pyrrhonischen Skepsis« [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Die Arbeit ist ein fortlaufender, einführender Kommentar zu Sextus Empiricus' „Grundriss der pyrrhonischen Skepsis“ (pyrrhoneíai hypotypôseis). Die Kommentierung wurde so gestaltet, dass einzelne Abschnitte gezielt nachgeschlagen werden können.
Breker, Christian
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Can an ancient Greek sceptic be eudaimôn (or happy)? And what difference does the answer make to us?

open access: yesRevista de Filosofia Antiga, 2012
The paper explores how far the ancient Greek sceptics in fact accept, and how far they should accept, the central Greek ethical notion of eudaimonia, usually translated "happiness" - and what, if anything, the answers may tell us today. The first section
Richard Bett
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The argument from undecidable dissension

open access: yesPrincipia: An International Journal of Epistemology
The five modes of suspension of judgment outlined by Sextus Empiricus (HP XV 164-188) coordinate a complex argumentative strategy to prompt the general suspension of judgment.
Hugo Enrique Sánchez López
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Following Sextus: Demonstrative Argument in Gorgias’ Peri tou mē ontos

open access: yesPeitho, 2018
The two extant versions of Gorgias’ Peri tou mē ontos (PTMO) have been preserved by an anonymous author (MXG) and by Sextus Empiricus (S.E.). Both versions have been differently interpreted by scholars who examine either the doctrine or the rhetorical ...
Stefania Giombini
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