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Little is known about Sextus Empiricus. He likely lived in Alexandria, Rome, or Athens. [1] His Roman name, Sextus, implies he was a Roman citizen. [2] The Suda, a 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, states that he was the same person as Sextus of Chaeronea, [3] as do other pre-modern sources, but this identification is commonly doubted. [4]
Robert Gregg Bury (/ ˈ b j ʊər i /; 22 March 1869 – 11 February 1951) was an Irish Anglican clergyman, classicist, philologist, and a translator of the works of Plato and Sextus Empiricus into English.
Against the Ethicists, Sextus Empiricus, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-19-823620-7; Against the Logicians, Sextus Empiricus, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-521-53195-5 "Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists", Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 052151391X, 9780521513913
Loeb Classical Library. Translated by R.G. Bury. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-99301-2. Sextus Empiricus (1935). Against the Logicians. Loeb Classical Library (in Ancient Greek and English). Translated by R. G. Bury. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-99321-7. Sextus Empiricus (1936). Against the Physicists, Against the Ethicists. Loeb ...
The authorship of the fragment, which survives in the writings of Sextus Empiricus, is vigorously debated. [9] Modern classical scholarship accepted the attribution to Critias on the basis of a hypothesis first advanced by Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff in 1875, and thereafter Hermann Diels, Johann August Nauck, and Bruno Snell, endorsed this ascription for which there is but one source in ...
Sextus Empiricus quotes part of a commentary by Demetrius on Epicurus, where Demetrius interprets Epicurus' statement that "time is an accident of accidents." [2] Papyrus scrolls containing portions of the works of Demetrius were discovered at the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. The major works partially preserved are: [3]
However, Weintraub claims in The Philosophical Quarterly [5] that although Sextus's approach to the problem appears different, Hume's approach was actually an application of another argument raised by Sextus: [6] Those who claim for themselves to judge the truth are bound to possess a criterion of truth. This criterion, then, either is without ...
The Methodic school (Methodics, Methodists, or Methodici, Greek: Μεθοδικοί) was a branch of medical thought in ancient Greece and Rome.It arose in reaction to both the Empiric school and the Dogmatic school (sometimes referred to as the Rationalist school). [1]