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Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism

By: Mary Mills Patrick

...of Philosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TU... ...hilosophy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY ... ...phy in the University of Bern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY Th... ...ern Switzerland, November 1897 BY MARY MILLS PATRICK PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKEY This Thesis is accompanied b... ...t grammarians, rhetoricians, geometricians, arithmeticians, astronomers and musicians. The five books of the latter consist of two against the logic... ...nsion of judgement, and afterwards ataraxia, or "repose and tranquillity of soul." [5] The purpose of Scepticism is then the hope of ataraxia, and ... ...find from the teachings of Sextus that he affirmed the non-existence of the soul, [1] or the ego, and denied absolute existence altogether. [2] Th...

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