This is a comprehensive treatment of Greek scepticism, from the beginnings of epistemology with Xenophanes, to the final full development of Pyrrhonism as presented in the work of Sextus Empiricus. This analysis sets the arguments of the Greek sceptical thinkers in their historical context, tracing the development of scepticism in Greek thought from 500 BC to 200 AD. In addition, R.J. Hankinson considers the nature of scepticism and the extent of the Sceptics' impact on later philosophies. It also offers a thorough analysis of the only complete source on the later Pyrrhonists, the work of Sextus Empiricus. The work includes the latest scholarship on the Sceptics. It concludes with an overall assessment of the coherence of the sceptical programme, and asks if the life envisaged by this philosophical perspective is a liveable one.
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"A well-written look at this elusive school of thought." -- Religious Studies Review
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R. J. Hankinson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Decent broad overview in a historial context,
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These are the real skeptics. Forget silly paranormal refuters who have coopted the name. It is a decent outline of the ancient philosophers who have doubted. A good introduction, but read the primary texts
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The student of ancient philosophy is in a position at once more fascinating and more frustrating than that of his colleagues who work in less antique disciplines. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dogmatic rashness, cataleptic impression, external underlying objects, ontological scepticism, genuine scepticism, undecidable dispute, negative dogmatism, apprehensive impression, sceptical way, ten modes, commemorative signs, apparent things, sceptical attack, sceptical argument, indicative sign, affective property, additional belief, dogmatic claims, sceptical position, suspending judgement, practical criterion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Outline of Empiricism, Pyrrhonian Discourses, Essential Realist, First Mode, Second Mode, Essential Realism, Five Modes, Micawber Policy, Third Mode, Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius, Essential Scepticism, Modes of Agrippa, Philo of Larissa, Sextus Empiricus, Cicero's Academica, Concessive Method, Mode of Reciprocity, Seventh Mode, Sixth Mode, Diodorus Cronus, Material Modes, Middle Ages, Reciprocal Mode, Metrodorus of Chios New!
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dogmatic rashness, cataleptic impression, external underlying objects, ontological scepticism, genuine scepticism, undecidable dispute, negative dogmatism, apprehensive impression, sceptical way, ten modes, commemorative signs, apparent things, sceptical attack, sceptical argument, indicative sign, affective property, additional belief, dogmatic claims, sceptical position, suspending judgement, practical criterion Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Outline of Empiricism, Pyrrhonian Discourses, Essential Realist, First Mode, Second Mode, Essential Realism, Five Modes, Micawber Policy, Third Mode, Attic Nights, Aulus Gellius, Essential Scepticism, Modes of Agrippa, Philo of Larissa, Sextus Empiricus, Cicero's Academica, Concessive Method, Mode of Reciprocity, Seventh Mode, Sixth Mode, Diodorus Cronus, Material Modes, Middle Ages, Reciprocal Mode, Metrodorus of Chios New!
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- On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) (Philosophical Classics) by Titus Lucretius Carus on 6 pages
- Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle) by Aristotle on 4 pages
- Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Great Books in Philosophy) by Sextus Empiricus on 4 pages
- The Presocratic Philosophers (Arguments of the Philosophers) by Jonathan Barnes in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- On the Natural Faculties by Galen on page 216, and Back Matter
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