Sextus Empiricus’ Against the Physicists examines numerous topics central to ancient Greek enquiries into the nature of the physical world, covering subjects such as god, cause and effect, whole and part, bodies, place, motion, time, number, and coming into being and perishing, and is the most extensive surviving treatment of these topics by an ancient Greek sceptic...
This work, written from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, is an examination of contemporary theories of knowledge and justification. It takes ideas primarily found in Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism, restates them in a modern idiom, and then asks whether any contemporary theory of knowledge meets the challenges they raise....
Karel Janácek (1906-1996) hat neben seinen beiden Sextus-Monographien und seinen Indices zu Sextus und zu Diogenes Laertius fünfzig Artikel zu Sextus und den mit Sextus zusammenhängenden Themen veröffentlicht. Es handelt sich um methodologisch streng geführte lexikalische und stilistische Untersuchungen, die ein neues Licht auf Sextus' Werk geworfen haben.
Augustine's christianization of Plato and Thomas Aquinas's of Aristotle provided the two main foundations of medieval Judeo-Christian philosophy. In The Christianization of Pyrrhonism, José R. Maia Neto shows that Greek scepticism played a similar role in the development of a major strand of modern religious thought....
Müssen wir den Skeptizismus als unkontrollierbare Bedrohung unserer Wissensansprüche anerkennen? Anhand der Differenzierung seiner systematischen Formen in der theoretischen und praktischen Philosophie argumentiert der Autor für die Strategie des integrativen Antiskeptizismus, die den philosophischen Zweifel als unverzichtbaren Bestandteil Rationalität diagnostiziert und so zu beherrschen versucht. Grundlage der Untersuchung bildet die konkrete Konfrontation der pyrrhonischen Skepsis mit Hegel.
Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism is one of the most important and influential texts in the history of Greek philosophy. In The Demands of Reason Casey Perin examines those aspects of Pyrrhonian Scepticism as Sextus describes it in the Outlines that are of special philosophical significance: its commitment to the search for truth and to certain principles of rationality, its scope, and its consequences for action and agency....
A splendid edition. Schneewind's illuminating introduction succinctly situates the Enquiry in its historical context, clarifying its relationship to Calvinism, to Newtonian science, and to earlier moral philosophers, and providing a persuasive account of Hume's ethical naturalism. --Martha C. Nussbaum
A new critical text and translation on facing pages, with an introduction, annotations, and indices verborum and nominum et rerum by Denise Davidson Greaves
This book discusses how civilized oppression (the oppression that involves neither violence nor the law) can be overcome by re-examining our participation in it. Moral community, solidarity and education are offered as vibrant strategies to overcome the hurt and marginalization that stem from civilized oppression.
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