Sextus Empiricus: Against the Ethicists (Adversus Mathematicos XI)

by Sextus Empiricus; Bett, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780198250975
• ISBN10: 0198250975
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-10
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This volume contains a new translation of Against the Ethicists , together with an introduction and extensive commentary. Those who have discussed this work in the past have tended to underestimate it, regarding its main position as essentially the same as that of Sextus's better-known Outlines of Pyrrhonism . Richard Bett shows that this text proposes a distinct and previously unnoticed philosophical outlook, associated with a phase of Pyrrhonian Scepticism earlier than Sextus himself.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	viii
Introduction	ix
Translation	1	(42)
Commentary	43	(214)
Appendix A: Further Analysis of Parallel Passages	257	(15)
Appendix B: On the `Common Source or Sources' Employed by Sextus and Diogenes	272	(2)
Appendix C: The Views of Karel Janacek	274	(3)
Bibliography	277	(10)
Index nominum	287	(3)
Index locorum	290	(11)
Subject index	301