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Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism

Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism

Sextus (Empiricus.)

This volume presents the accurate and readable translation which was first published in 1994, together with a substantial new historical and philosophical introduction by Jonathan Barnes.
Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism

Sextus Empiricus and Pyrrhonean Scepticism

Alan Bailey

Alan Bailey offers a clear exposition and defence of the philosophy of Sextus Empiricus, one of the most influential of ancient thinkers, the father of philosophical scepticism.
Skeptizismus und Protestantismus: der philosophische Ansatz ...

Skeptizismus und Protestantismus: der philosophische Ansatz ...

Rochus Leonhardt

Anders als Bader hält Katja Maria Vogt das von Sextus Empiricus dargestellte skeptisches Kundtun ohne propositionale Einstellung für sachgemäß und nachvollziehbar: Sextus unterscheidet zunächst „zwischen der pyrrhonischen Weise, ...
The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism

The Sentences of Sextus and the Origins of Christian Ascetiscism

Daniele Pevarello

Daniele Pevarello analyzes the Sentences of Sextus, a second century collection of Greek aphorisms compiled by Sextus, an otherwise unknown Christian author.
New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism

New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism

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AGAIN ON SEXTUS ON AENESIDEMUS ON PLATO Mauro Bonazzi I One of the most intriguing features of Early Imperial philosophy is the renewal of interest in the ancients.1 From the end of the first century bc onwards it is as if philosophers  ...
The Gospel of Thomas: Introduction and Commentary

The Gospel of Thomas: Introduction and Commentary

Simon Gathercole

5 I owe this reference to Dr Daniele Pevarello. 6 D. Pevarello, 'Christians in Cynic rags? Caesar's denarius and the ideal of poverty in Sextus the Pythagorean', unpublished paper deliveredat the Oxbridge PhD NewTestament Seminar (2009) , ...
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FRÖHLICH (Pierre), 1406. FROHNE (Renate), 4635. FRONDA (Michael P.), 1779. Frontinus (Sextus Iulius), 1970. Fronto (Marcus Cornelius), 1949. FROSINI (Fabio). FROST (Dennis J.), 6147. FROST (Gary L.), 5108. FROST (Simon), 38.
Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time ...

Lucretius and Modernity: Epicurean Encounters Across Time ...

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Cf. Katja Maria Vogt, “Skepticism and Concepts: Can the Skeptic Think?,” Chapter 6 in K. M. Vogt, Belief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 140–57. 8 . Sextus ascribes SPT to Epicurus (M 8.63), ...

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