This volume contains a new translation of Against the Ethicists, together with an introduction and extensive commentary. Those who have discussed this work in the past have tended to underestimate it, regarding its main position as essentially the same as that of Sextus's better-known Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Richard Bett shows that this text proposes a distinct and previously unnoticed philosophical outlook, associated with a phase of Pyrrhonian Scepticism earlier than Sextus himself.

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Ethicists: (Adversus Mathematicos XI) (Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers)

Politics & Social Sciences

Bett, Richard

Sextus Empiricus

Philosophy

Clarendon Press

Blank presents a new translation into clear modern English of a key treatise by one of the greatest of ancient philosophers, together with the first ever commentary on this work. Sextus Empiricus's Against the Grammarians is a polemical attack on ancient Greek ideas about grammar, and provides one of the best examples of sustained Sceptical reasoning.

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Grammarians (Adversus Mathematicos I) (Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers)

History

Blank, D. L.

Europe

Sextus Empiricus (ca. 160–210 CE), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for years in Rome and possibly also in Alexandria and Athens. His three surviving works are 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism' (three books on the practical and ethical scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis, ca. 360–275 BCE, as developed later, presenting also a case against the Dogmatists); 'Against the Dogmatists' (five books dealing with the Logicians, the Physicists, and the Ethicists); and 'Against the Professors' (six books: Grammarians, Rhetors, Geometers, Arithmeticians, Astrologers, and Musicians). These two latter works might be called a general criticism of professors of all arts and sciences. Sextus's work is a valuable source for the history of thought especially because of his development and formulation of former sceptic doctrines.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Sextus Empiricus is in four volumes.

Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Loeb Classical Library No. 273)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Harvard University Press

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians (Loeb Classical Library No. 291)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Physicists. Against the Ethicists. (Loeb Classical Library No. 311)

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Professors (Loeb Classical Library No. 382)

Against the Musicians (Greek & Latin Music Theory) (English and Ancient Greek Edition)

Arts & Photography

Music

Univ of Nebraska Pr

"Judicious in every respect: selection, translation and structuring of the texts, footnotes, bibliography, and index. . . . The book of choice for undergraduate courses." --Edward M. Galligan, University of North Carolina

Sextus Empiricus: Selections from the Major Writings on Scepticism, Man, and God (Hackett Classics)

Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.

Esquisses pyrrhoniennes: Bilingue Grec - Français

POINTS

Grundriss der pyrrhonischen Skepsis.

Suhrkamp

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