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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781462803321

Titolo

New essays on ancient Pyrrhonism [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Diego E. Machuca

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011

ISBN

1-283-16202-4

9786613162021

90-04-20777-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 p.)

Collana

Philosophia antiqua ; ; v. 126

Classificazione

5,1

6,12

CD 7167

Altri autori (Persone)

MachucaDiego E

Disciplina

186/.1

Soggetti

Skepticism

Philosophy, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / D. E. Machuca -- Introduction / Diego E. Machuca -- A Pyrrhonian Plato? Again On Sextus On Aenesidemus On Plato / Mauro Bonazzi -- The Cyrenaics Vs. The Pyrrhonists On Knowledge Of Appearances / Tim O’ Keefe -- What God Didn’t Know (Sextus Empiricus AM IX 162–166) / James Warren -- Skepticism And Everyday Life / Filip Grgic -- Sextus Empiricus On Skeptical Piety / Harald Thorsrud -- Sextus Empiricus’ Style Of Writing / Stéphane Marchand -- Moderate Ethical Realism In Sextus’ Against The Ethicists? / Diego E. Machuca -- Is The Pyrrhonists An Internalist? / Otávio Bueno -- Index Nominum / D. E. Machuca -- Index Locorum / D. E. Machuca -- Index Rerum / D. E. Machuca.

Sommario/riassunto

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.