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Sextus Empiricus

By Sextus Empiricus, Sextus Empiricus

Sextus Empiricus

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In this unjustly neglected and misunderstood work Sextus sets out a distinctive Sceptic position in ethics. He discusses the concepts good and bad, and puts forward the sceptical argument that nothing is either good or bad by nature or intrinsically or invariably, but only relatively to persons and/or to circumstances. He then argues that the sceptic is better off than the non-sceptic. In the latter part of the book, Sextus attacks the Stoic view that there is such a thing as a 'skill for life'. This volume contains a translation of Against the Ethicists into clear modern English, together with an introduction and a detailed commentary. Those who have discussed this work in the past have tended to underestimate it, often regarding its main position as essentially the same as that of Sextus' better-known Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Richard Bett shows that Against the Ethicists represents a quite distinct and coherent philosophical outlook, associated with a phase of Scepticism earlier than Sextus himself, an outlook of which little other evidence survives.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
340
Release Date:
1997-01-30
Publication Date:
1995-11-28
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0198236204
ISBN13:
9780198236207
Weight:
611 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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