Sextus Empiricus / with an English translation by R.G. Bury.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Sextus, Empiricus, author.

Contributor:

• Bury, Robert Gregg, 1869-1951, translator.

Series:

• Loeb classical library ; 273, 291, 311, 382.
• Loeb Classical Library ; 273, 291, 311, 382

Language:

• English
• Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

• Skepticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Digital Loeb.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Summary:

The three surviving works by Sextus Empiricus (c. 160-210 CE) are Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Against the Dogmatists, and Against the Professors. Their value as a source for the history of thought is especially that they represent development and formulation of former sceptic doctrines. Sextus Empiricus (ca. 160-210 CE), exponent of scepticism and critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher, pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for years in Rome and possibly also in Alexandria and Athens. His three surviving works are Outlines of Pyrrhonism (three books on the practical and ethical scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis, ca. 360-275 BCE, as developed later, presenting also a case against the Dogmatists); Against the Dogmatists (five books dealing with the Logicians, the Physicists, and the Ethicists); and Against the Professors (six books: Grammarians, Rhetors, Geometers, Arithmeticians, Astrologers, and Musicians). These two latter works might be called a general criticism of professors of all arts and sciences. Sextus's work is a valuable source for the history of thought especially because of his development and formulation of former sceptic doctrines. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Sextus Empiricus is in four volumes.

Contents:

• v. I. Outlines of Pyrrhonism
• v. II. Against logicians
• v. III. Against physicists. Against ethicists
• v. IV. Against professors.

Notes:

• Includes indexes and glossary.
• Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Sextus, Empiricus. Works.

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