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Table of Contents
- 1 Major Ideas
- 2 Biography
- 3 Major Works of Sextus Empiricus
- 4 Videos
- 5 Related Products
- 5.1 Sextus Empiricus: Selections from the Major Writings on Scepticism, Man, and God (Hackett Classics)
- 5.2 Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Loeb Classical Library No. 273)
- 5.3 Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Great Books in Philosophy)
- 5.4 Sextus Empiricus: Against Those in the Disciplines: Translated with introduction and notes
- 5.5 Sextus Empiricus: Against the Professors (Loeb Classical Library No. 382)
- 5.6 Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
- 5.7 Sextus Empiricus: Against the Physicists
- 5.8 Five Modes of Scepticism: Sextus Empiricus and the Agrippan Modes (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)
- 5.9 Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians (Loeb Classical Library No. 291)
- 5.10 Sextus Empiricus: Against the Physicists. Against the Ethicists. (Loeb Classical Library No. 311)
Major Ideas
– It is futile to attempt to determine external realities (the nonevident) by appeal to appearances (the evident).
– We have access to only appearances and no reason to prefer one appearance to another.
– Appearances vary according to the condition of the observer and the nature of what is judged.
– Any claim about the nonevident can be opposed by an equally compelling contrary claim.
– Any effort to argue for the priority of some one appearance will involve circular reasoning or infinite regress.
– The skeptic, unlike the dogmatist, withholds judgement on all matters of external fact and, as a result, achieves the state of unperturbedness.
– Practical action will be taken, however, because of the involuntary promptings of nature.
Biography
A medical doctor and teacher, Sextus Empiricus was the last leader of the Pyrrhonean movement.
His written works are copies of lectures consisting of arguments worked out by previous skeptics. His ‘Against the Mathematicians’ and ‘Against the Dogmatists’ contain detailed arguments against each area of knowledge: the liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music), and what then were three branches of philosophy – logic, physics, and ethics.
Ironically, the above mentioned works are two of the most important sources of knowledge about the early history of astronomy, geometry, grammar, and the prevailing Stoic theology of the time.
Major Works of Sextus Empiricus
– Outlines of Pyrrhonism
– Against the Mathematicians
Videos
Sextus Empiricus: Selections from the Major Writings on Scepticism, Man, and God (Hackett Classics)
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Sextus Empiricus (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 252 Pages - 12/01/1985 (Publication Date) - Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (Publisher)
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Loeb Classical Library No. 273)
- Used Book in Good Condition
- Hardcover Book
- Sextus Empiricus (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 560 Pages - 01/01/1933 (Publication Date) - Harvard University Press (Publisher)
Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Great Books in Philosophy)
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- Empiricus, Sextus (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 288 Pages - 05/01/1990 (Publication Date) - Prometheus (Publisher)
Sextus Empiricus: Against Those in the Disciplines: Translated with introduction and notes
- Hardcover Book
- Bett, Richard (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 288 Pages - 07/31/2018 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Professors (Loeb Classical Library No. 382)
- Hardcover Book
- Sextus Empiricus (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 416 Pages - 01/01/1949 (Publication Date) - Harvard University Press (Publisher)
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
- Cambridge University Press
- Empiricus, Sextus (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 288 Pages - 08/15/2000 (Publication Date) - Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Physicists
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Bett, Richard (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 216 Pages - 07/26/2012 (Publication Date) - Cambridge University Press (Publisher)
Five Modes of Scepticism: Sextus Empiricus and the Agrippan Modes (Oxford Philosophical Monographs)
- Hardcover Book
- Sienkiewicz, Stefan (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 224 Pages - 05/28/2019 (Publication Date) - Oxford University Press (Publisher)
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians (Loeb Classical Library No. 291)
- Hardcover Book
- Sextus Empiricus (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 496 Pages - 01/01/1935 (Publication Date) - Harvard University Press (Publisher)
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Physicists. Against the Ethicists. (Loeb Classical Library No. 311)
- Hardcover Book
- Sextus Empiricus (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 560 Pages - 01/01/1936 (Publication Date) - Harvard University Press (Publisher)
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