New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism

New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism

Author: Diego E. Machuca

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9004207767

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Scholarship on ancient Pyrrhonism has made tremendous advances over the past three decades, thanks especially to the careful reexamination of Sextus Empiricus’ extant corpus. Building on this momentum, the authors of the eight essays collected here examine some of the most vexed and intriguing exegetical and philosophical questions posed by Sextus’ presentation of this form of skepticism. The essays explore in a new light the skeptical interpretation of Plato, the differences between Pyrrhonism and Cyrenaicism, the Pyrrhonist’s stance on ordinary life, religion, language, and ethics, Sextus’ discussion of our access to our own mental states, and the relationship between Pyrrhonism and epistemic internalism and externalism. These new essays represent a substantial contribution to the advancement of scholarship on Pyrrhonian skepticism.


New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism

New Essays on Ancient Pyrrhonism

Author: Diego E. Machuca

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-07-12

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 9004207775

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Scholarship on ancient Pyrrhonism has made tremendous advances over the past three decades, thanks especially to the careful reexamination of Sextus Empiricus’ extant corpus. Building on this momentum, the authors of the eight essays collected here examine some of the most vexed and intriguing exegetical and philosophical questions posed by Sextus’ presentation of this form of skepticism. The essays explore in a new light the skeptical interpretation of Plato, the differences between Pyrrhonism and Cyrenaicism, the Pyrrhonist’s stance on ordinary life, religion, language, and ethics, Sextus’ discussion of our access to our own mental states, and the relationship between Pyrrhonism and epistemic internalism and externalism. These new essays represent a substantial contribution to the advancement of scholarship on Pyrrhonian skepticism.


Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy

Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy

Author: Diego E. Machuca

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-07-17

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9400719914

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This is the first collection of original essays entirely devoted to a detailed study of the Pyrrhonian tradition. The twelve contributions collected in the present volume combine to offer a historical and systematic analysis of the form of skepticism known as “Pyrrhonism”. They discuss whether the Pyrrhonist is an ethically engaged agent, whether he can claim to search for truth, and other thorny questions concerning ancient Pyrrhonism; explore its influence on certain modern thinkers such as Pierre Bayle and David Hume; and examine Pyrrhonian skepticism in relation to contemporary analytic philosophy.


How to Be a Pyrrhonist

How to Be a Pyrrhonist

Author: Richard Bett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-03-21

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1108471072

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Explores what it was like to argue and to live as a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism.


Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers

Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers

Author: Brian C. Ribeiro

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 9004465545

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Brian C. Ribeiro’s Sextus, Montaigne, Hume: Pyrrhonizers invites us to view the Pyrrhonist tradition as involving all those who share a commitment to the activity of Pyrrhonizing and develops fresh, provocative readings of Sextus, Montaigne, and Hume as radical Pyrrhonizing skeptics.


Maieusis

Maieusis

Author: Dominic Scott

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2007-12-13

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 0199289972

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Maieusis pays tribute to the highly influential work of Myles Burnyeat, whose contributions to the study of ancient philosophy have done much to enhance the profile of the subject around the world. What is distinctive about his work is his capacity to deepen our understanding of the relation between ancient and modern thought, and to combine the best of contemporary philosophy - its insights as well as its rigour - with a deep sensitivity to classical texts. Nineteen of the world's leading experts in the field examine a wide range of topics in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on Plato. Topics include Socrates and the nature of philosophy, the different aspects of eros in the Symposium, Republic and Phaedrus, the Phaedo's arguments for immortality, wars and warriors in Plato, and the different aspects of the cave allegory in the Republic. .


Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus

Epistemology After Sextus Empiricus

Author: Katja Maria Vogt

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 019094630X

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Sextus Empiricus was the voice of ancient Greek skepticism for posterity, providing a model of skeptical philosophy that remains significant to this day. This volume collects essays discussing Sextus's influence in the history of modern philosophy as well as contemporary engagements with Sextus's version of Pyrrhonian skepticism.


Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius

Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius

Author: Katja Maria Vogt

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Published: 2015-04-14

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9783161533365

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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.


Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics

Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics

Author: Gisela Striker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1996-06-13

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780521476416

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This collection of essays focuses on key questions debated by Greek and Roman philosophers of the Hellenistic period.


Sextus Empiricus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism

Sextus Empiricus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism

Author: Plínio Junqueira Smith

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 3030945189

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This book offers a comprehensive interpretation of Sextus Empiricus based on his own view of what he calls the distinctive character of skepticism. It focuses on basic topics highlighted by this ancient philosopher concerning Pyrrhonism, a kind of skepticism named for Pyrrho: its concept, its principles, its reason, its criteria, its goals. In the first part, the author traces distinct phases in the life and philosophical development of a talented person, from the pre-philosophical phase where philosophy was perceived as the solution to life's disturbing anomalies, through his initial philosophical investigation in order to find truth where the basic experience is that of a huge disagreement between philosophers, to the final phase where he finally recognises that his experience is similar to that of the skeptical school and adheres to skepticism. The second part is devoted to explain the nature of his skepticism. It presents an original interpretation, for it claims that the central role in Sextus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism is played by a skeptical logos, a rationale or way of reasoning. This is what unifies and articulates the skeptical orientation. The skeptic goes on investigating truth, but in a new condition, for he is now tranquil, and he has a skeptical method of his own. He has also acquired a special ability in order to balance both sides of an opposition, which involves a number of different skills. Finally, the author examines the skeptical life generated by this philosophical experience where he lives a life without opinions and dogmas; it is an engaged life, deeply concerned with our everyday actions and values. Readers will gain a deeper insight into the philosophy of Pyrrhonism as presented by Sextus Empiricus, as well as understand the meaning of anomalía, zétesis, epokhé, ataraxía, and other important ideas of this philosophy.