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Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism

By: Mary Mills Patrick

...us and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools... ...ools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the ... ...the teachings of Pyrrhonism, it has been hoped that a translation of it into English might prove a useful contribution to the literature on Pyrrhonis... ...s only medical work bore the title ἐκπεηξηθὰ ὑπνκλήκαηα. The opinion of the writers above referred to is that the passa ge which we have quoted from... ...ratio Empirica, [6] which would be natural if the Hypotyposes were written shortly after Galen's Sub. Em., and in the same place. Further, Hippolyt... ...und against the seat of the Sceptical School having been in Rome, even for a short time, in his latest publication regarding it. [1] This opinion is... ...e is fixed by Zeller at 80-150 A.D., therefore Pyrrhonism was known in Rome shortly before the time of Sextus. [1] Pappenheim Sitz der Skeptischen S... ...those who do evil. [8] The reasoning power of this animal is proved by the story taken from Chrysippus, of the dog that came to a meeting of three ... ...or a drink; Tiberius, the emperor, saw in the dark, and Aristotle tells the story of a certain Thracian, who thought that he saw the figure of a man ...

...The following treatise on Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism has been prepared to supply a need much felt in the English language by students of Greek philosophy. For while other schools of Greek philosophy have been exhaustively and critically discussed by English scholars, there are few sources of information available to the student ...

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