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Book Synopsis Sextus Empiricus. The Sceptical Philosophy.-Plotinus. The Eclectics, or later Platonists by : James Amiraux JEREMIE (Dean of Lincoln.)
Download or read book Sextus Empiricus. The Sceptical Philosophy.-Plotinus. The Eclectics, or later Platonists written by James Amiraux JEREMIE (Dean of Lincoln.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by : Mary Mills Patrick
Download or read book Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism written by Mary Mills Patrick and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism" by Mary Mills Patrick. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis Outlines of Pyrrhonism by : Sextus (Empiricus.)
Download or read book Outlines of Pyrrhonism written by Sextus (Empiricus.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history philosophers have sought to define, understand, and delineate concepts important to human well-being. One such concept is "knowledge." Many philosophers believed that absolute, certain knowledge, is possible--that the physical world and ideas formulated about it could be given solid foundation unaffected by the varieties of mere opinion. Sextus Empiricus stands as an example of the "skeptic" school of thought whose members believed that knowledge was either unattainable or, if a genuine possibility, the conditions necessary to achieve it were next to impossible to satisfy. In other words, in the absence of complete knowledge, one must make do with the information provided by an imperfect world and conveyed to the mind through sense impressions that can often deceive us. Throughout his life Sextus Empiricus entered into intellectual combat with those who confidently claimed to possess indubitable knowledge. For skeptics, the best one can hope to achieve is a reasonable suspension of judgment--remaining ever mindful that claims to knowledge require careful scrutiny, thoughtful analysis, and critical review if we are to prevent ourselves and others from plunging headlong into mistaken notions.
Book Synopsis History of Greek and Roman Philosophy and Science by : Charles James Blomfield
Download or read book History of Greek and Roman Philosophy and Science written by Charles James Blomfield and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sextus Empiricus by : Luciano Floridi
Download or read book Sextus Empiricus written by Luciano Floridi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject is Sextus Empiricus, one the chief sources of information on ancient philosophy and one of the most influential authors in the history of skepticism. Sextus' works have had an extraordinary influence on western philosophy, and this book provides the first exhaustive and detailed study of their recovery, transmission, and intellectual influence through Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. This study deals with Sextus' biography, as well as the history of the availability and reception of his works. It also contains an extensive bibliographical section, including editions, translations, and commentaries.
Book Synopsis Sextus Empiricus: Against Those in the Disciplines by : Richard Bett
Download or read book Sextus Empiricus: Against Those in the Disciplines written by Richard Bett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against Those in the Disciplines (Pros Mathêmatikous, also known by the abbreviated title M 1-6) deals with six specialized fields of study: grammar, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astrology, and music. In sceptical fashion, it questions the credentials of those who claim to have expert knowledge in these fields. It is the least well known of Sextus Empiricus' works, mainly because its subject-matter is not directly philosophical; some of its arguments require knowledge of these fields as they existed in the ancient world, which philosophers (Sextus' main readership) tend not to have. But it is a good specimen of Sextus' usual sceptical method of inducing suspension of judgement about the topics under consideration, and it contains much that is of philosophical interest. This volume aims to bring this work to a wider philosophical audience and to make the technicalities of the fields discussed understandable to non-specialists. It contains a translation of the work into clear modern English, accompanied by extensive explanatory notes. For ease of comprehension, the text is broken down into named sections and subsections, and these are also listed separately before the translation (the Outline of Argument). An introduction discusses the place of Against Those in the Disciplines in the totality of Sextus' work, and examines certain features that are distinctive to it. Other aids to the reader are a list of persons referred to in the work, with brief information about each; an English-Greek and Greek-English glossary of key terms; and a list of passages in other works of Sextus that are parallel to passages in this work.
Book Synopsis Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts by :
Download or read book Bent's Literary Advertiser and Register of Engravings, Works on the Fine Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Monthly Literary Advertiser by :
Download or read book The Monthly Literary Advertiser written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Circulating Department by : Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Circulating Department written by Free Public Library (Worcester, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism by : Sextus Empiricus
Download or read book Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism written by Sextus Empiricus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis PLOTINUS Ennead IV.7 by : Barrie Fleet
Download or read book PLOTINUS Ennead IV.7 written by Barrie Fleet and published by Parmenides Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ennead IV.7 is a very early treatise (second according to Porphyry's chronological table), and unlike the many treatises devoted to attempts at untangling various issues Plotinus found problematic in Plato's thinking, this one presents the teachings of the other main schools current in Plotinus' day: the Stoics, Epicureans, Pythagoreans, and Peripatetics, all of whom presented soul as something material or as contingent upon material soul, and so as being neither truly immortal nor imperishable. It includes observations on many mainly Stoic doctrines on perception, memory, sensation, thought, virtue, powers of material bodies, mixture and reproduction (Chapters 1-83); on Pythagorean attunement (84); and on Peripatetic entelechy (85). In Chapters 9-10 Plotinus presents, in broad terms, Plato's doctrines on soul's immortality-mainly that of the individual soul, but a fortiori that of the soul of the cosmos. These chapters offer some of Plotinus' most powerful prose. He is not concerned to prove the soul's immortality-that was an uncontroversial tenet of Platonism, to be taken for granted. In this treatise Plotinus is laying down the indisputable foundations for his later writings.
Book Synopsis A History of Ancient Philosophy IV by : Giovanni Reale
Download or read book A History of Ancient Philosophy IV written by Giovanni Reale and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the first 500 years of the common era. These years witnessed the revivals of Aristotelianism, Epicureanism, Pyrrhonism, Cynicism, and Pythagoreanism; but by far the most important movement was the revival of Platonism under Plotinus. Here, the historical context of Plotinus is provided including the currents of thought that preceded him and opened the path for him. The presuppositions of the Enneads are made explicit and the thought of Plotinus is reconstructed. The author reorients the expositions of Middle Platonism and neo-Pythagoreanism. He provides a full exposition of Hermeticism and the doctrines of the Chaldean Oracles. He also defends the notion that Philo of Alexandria nourished a Jewish philosophy, not an eclectic mixture.
Book Synopsis Sextus Empiricus: Against the logicians by : Sextus (Empiricus.)
Download or read book Sextus Empiricus: Against the logicians written by Sextus (Empiricus.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sextus Empiricus (ca. AD 160-210), 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 Athans. His three surviving works are 'Outlines of Pyrrhonism' (three books and the practical and ethical scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis, ca. 360-275 BC, as develped later, presenting also a case against the Dogmatists); Against the Dogmatistis' (five books dealing with the Logicians, Physicists, and Ethcists); 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' work is a source for the history of thought especially because of his development and formulation of former sceptic doctrines.
Book Synopsis Sextus Empiricus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism by : Plínio Junqueira Smith
Download or read book Sextus Empiricus’ Neo-Pyrrhonism written by Plínio Junqueira Smith and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis A Compendious History of English Literature by : George Lillie Craik
Download or read book A Compendious History of English Literature written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language from the Norman Conquest with Numerous Specimens by George L. Craik by :
Download or read book A Compendious History of English Literature, and of the English Language from the Norman Conquest with Numerous Specimens by George L. Craik written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: with Numerous Specimens by : George Lillie Craik
Download or read book A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: with Numerous Specimens written by George Lillie Craik and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: