Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius Katja Maria Vogt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vogt, Katja Maria, Editor.

Contributor:

Vogt, Katja Maria, 1968- editor.

Series:

Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia ; 3.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diogenes Laertius. Pyrrho.

Diogenes Laertius.

Diogenes Laertius. Timon.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages)

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Mohr Siebeck 2015

Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2015.

Language Note:

Title page, introduction and critical essays in English; text in Greek, with translation into English on opposite pages. Text by Tiziano Dorandi; translation by Elizabeth Scahffenberger and Katja Maria Vogt

Summary:

This volume offers the first bilingual edition of a major text in the history of epistemology, Diogenes Laertius's report on Pyrrho and Timon in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Leading experts contribute a philosophical introduction, translation, commentary, and scholarly essays on the nature of Diogenes's report as well as core questions in recent research on skepticism.

Contents:

Introduction : skepticism and metaphysics in Diogenes Laertius / Katja Maria Vogt

Pyrrhonism in Diogenes Laertius / Richard Bett

Precursors of pyrrhonism : Doig. Laert 9.67-73 / James Warren

Mind and language of the Laërtian pyrrhonist : Diog. Laert 9.74-77 / Lorenzo Corti

Skeptical investigation and its perks : Diog Laert. 9.69-70 and 79-89 / Christiana M. M. Olfert

Diogenes Laertius on the ten pyrrhonist modes / David Sedley.

Notes:

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783161564307

3161564308

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access