Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism
Sextus Empiricus author Jonathan Barnes editor Julia Annas editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
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Outlines of Scepticism is a work of major importance for the history of Greek philosophy.
Outlines of Scepticism is the fullest extant account of ancient scepticism and a work of major importance for the history of Greek philosophy. 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.Outlines of Scepticism, by the Greek philosopher Sextus Empiricus, is a work of major importance for the history of Greek philosophy. It is the fullest extant account of ancient scepticism, and it is also one of our most copious sources of information about the other Hellenistic philosophies. Its first part contains an elaborate exposition of the Pyrrhonian variety of scepticism; its second and third parts are critical and destructive, arguing against 'dogmatism' in logic, epistemology, science and ethics - an approach that revolutionized the study of philosophy when Sextus' works were rediscovered and published in the sixteenth century. 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.
"Students and scholars have every reason to be grateful...." James Allen, The Philosophical Review
ISBN: 9780521778091
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 480g
286 pages
2nd Revised edition