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Author |
: Richard Arnot Home Bett |
Publisher |
: Clarendon Press |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0198250657 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198250654 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy by : Richard Arnot Home Bett
In the absence of surviving works by Pyrrho, scholars have tended to treat his thought as essentially the same as the long subsequent sceptical tradition. This text offers a new interpretation of ancient Greek thought.
Author |
: Richard Arnot Home Bett |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0191698326 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780191698323 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy: On the meaning of aletheuein and pseudesthai by : Richard Arnot Home Bett
In the absence of surviving works by Pyrrho, scholars have tended to treat his thought as essentially the same as the long subsequent sceptical tradition. This text offers a different interpretation of his thought.
Author |
: Richard Bett |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199256616 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199256617 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy by : Richard Bett
In the absence of surviving works by Pyrrho, scholars have tended to treat his thought as essentially the same as the long subsequent sceptical tradition. This text offers a different interpretation of his thought.
Author |
: Christopher I. Beckwith |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 299 |
Release |
: 2017-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780691176321 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0691176329 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Buddha by : Christopher I. Beckwith
Presents a history of early Buddhism based solely on dateable artefacts and archaeology rather than received tradition, much of which data is provided by studying Pyrrho's history
Author |
: Sextus (Empiricus) |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198712701 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198712707 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sextus Empiricus by : Sextus (Empiricus)
Sextus Empiricus: Against Those in the Disciplines (Pros Mathematikous, also known by the abbreviated title M 1-6) deals with six specialized fields of study: grammar, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astrology, and music. In sceptical fashion, it questions the credentials of those who claim to have expert knowledge in these fields. It is the least well known of Sextus Empiricus' works, mainly because its subject-matter is not directly philosophical; some of its arguments require knowledge of these fields as they existed in the ancient world, which philosophers (Sextus' main readership) tend not to have. But it is a good specimen of Sextus' usual sceptical method of inducing suspension of judgement about the topics under consideration, and it contains much that is of philosophical interest. This volume aims to bring this work to a wider philosophical audience and to make the technicalities of the fields discussed understandable to non-specialists. It contains a translation of the work into clear modern English, accompanied by extensive explanatory notes. For ease of comprehension, the text is broken down into named sections and subsections, and these are also listed separately before the translation (the Outline of Argument). An introduction discusses the place of Against Those in the Disciplines in the totality of Sextus' work, and examines certain features that are distinctive to it. Other aids to the reader are a list of persons referred to in the work, with brief information about each; an English-Greek and Greek-English glossary of key terms; and a list of passages in other works of Sextus that are parallel to passages in this work.
Author |
: Peter Adamson |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 455 |
Release |
: 2015-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191043895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191043893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds by : Peter Adamson
Peter Adamson offers an accessible, humorous tour through a period of eight hundred years when some of the most influential of all schools of thought were formed: from the third century BC to the sixth century AD. He introduces us to Cynics and Skeptics, Epicureans and Stoics, emperors and slaves, and traces the development of Christian and Jewish philosophy and of ancient science. Chapters are devoted to such major figures as Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero, Seneca, Plotinus, and Augustine. But in keeping with the motto of the series, the story is told 'without any gaps,' providing an in-depth look at less familiar topics that remains suitable for the general reader. For instance, there are chapters on the fascinating but relatively obscure Cyrenaic philosophical school, on pagan philosophical figures like Porphyry and Iamblichus, and extensive coverage of the Greek and Latin Christian Fathers who are at best peripheral in most surveys of ancient philosophy. A major theme of the book is in fact the competition between pagan and Christian philosophy in this period, and the Jewish tradition also appears in the shape of Philo of Alexandria. Ancient science is also considered, with chapters on ancient medicine and the interaction between philosophy and astronomy. Considerable attention is paid also to the wider historical context, for instance by looking at the ascetic movement in Christianity and how it drew on ideas from Hellenic philosophy. From the counter-cultural witticisms of Diogenes the Cynic to the subtle skepticism of Sextus Empiricus, from the irreverent atheism of the Epicureans to the ambitious metaphysical speculation of Neoplatonism, from the ethical teachings of Marcus Aurelius to the political philosophy of Augustine, the book gathers together all aspects of later ancient thought in an accessible and entertaining way.
Author |
: Adrian Kuzminski |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2008-06-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739131398 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739131397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pyrrhonism by : Adrian Kuzminski
Pyrrhonism is commonly confused with scepticism in Western philosophy. Unlike sceptics, who believe there are no true beliefs, Pyrrhonists suspend judgment about all beliefs, including the belief that there are no true beliefs. Pyrrhonism was developed by a line of ancient Greek philosophers, from its founder Pyrrho of Elis in the fourth century BCE through Sextus Empiricus in the second century CE. Pyrrhonists offer no view, theory, or knowledge about the world, but recommend instead a practice, a distinct way of life, designed to suspend beliefs and ease suffering. Adrian Kuzminski examines Pyrrhonism in terms of its striking similarity to some Eastern non-dogmatic soteriological traditions-particularly Madhyamaka Buddhism. He argues that its origin can plausibly be traced to the contacts between Pyrrho and the sages he encountered in India, where he traveled with Alexander the Great. Although Pyrrhonism has not been practiced in the West since ancient times, its insights have occasionally been independently recovered, most recently in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Kuzminski shows that Pyrrhonism remains relevant perhaps more than ever as an antidote to today's cultures of belief.
Author |
: Diego E. Machuca |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2011-07-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004207776 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004207775 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism by : Diego E. Machuca
Scholarship on ancient Pyrrhonism has made tremendous advances over the past three decades, thanks especially to the careful reexamination of Sextus Empiricus’ extant corpus. Building on this momentum, the authors of the eight essays collected here examine some of the most vexed and intriguing exegetical and philosophical questions posed by Sextus’ presentation of this form of skepticism. The essays explore in a new light the skeptical interpretation of Plato, the differences between Pyrrhonism and Cyrenaicism, the Pyrrhonist’s stance on ordinary life, religion, language, and ethics, Sextus’ discussion of our access to our own mental states, and the relationship between Pyrrhonism and epistemic internalism and externalism. These new essays represent a substantial contribution to the advancement of scholarship on Pyrrhonian skepticism.
Author |
: Casey Perin |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 141 |
Release |
: 2010-04-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199557905 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019955790X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Demands of Reason by : Casey Perin
Casey Perin presents a new interpretation of key ideas and arguments in Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism, a founding text of the Sceptical tradition in philosophy. Perin examines Sextus' commitment to the search for truth and to certain principles of rationality, the scope of his scepticism, and its consequences for action and agency.
Author |
: Richard H. Popkin |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2003-03-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195355390 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195355393 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Scepticism by : Richard H. Popkin
This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism, first published in 1960, revised in 1979, and since translated into numerous foreign languages. This authoritative work of historical scholarship has been revised throughout, including new material on: the introduction of ancient skepticism into Renaissance Europe; the role of Savonarola and his disciples in bringing Sextus Empiricus to the attention of European thinkers; and new material on Henry More, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, G.W. Leibniz, Simon Foucher and Pierre-Daniel Huet, and Pierre Bayle. The bibliography has also been updated.