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Sextus Empiricus (c. 160–c. 210 AD)| Greek physician and philosopher. He was an exponent of scepticism of an agnostic, not a dogmatic, kind – that is, he rejected the view that knowledge was demonstrably impossible, and he insisted on keeping an open mind on this as on other questions. His most important work is the Outlines of Pyrrhonism – a summary of the scepticism of Greek philosopher Pyrrho and his successors. |
| His other surviving works are Against the Learned and Against the Dogmatists. Sextus' work is a valuable source for the history of philosophy, because of his impartiality in presenting the arguments of his opponents. Little is known of his life. |
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No references found | Thus, others delight in epitomes, paradoxes, and the stings of extravagant wits, and hence place a high value upon Ramon Lull, Gemma Frisius, Raimond Sebond, Sextus Empiricus, the Abbot Trithemius, Henry Cornelius Agrippa, Erasmus, Peter Ramus, and the heretical writers. Revisiting antiquity, she focuses on the skepticism of the second century CE Sextus Empiricus whose Outline of Skepticism, published in Latin translation in 1562, exerted a major influence not only on the early modern transition from metaphysics (what we know) to epistemology (how we know what we know, and don't know), but also on the early modern need for a deeper understanding of animal being. Representative works of Plato are particularly well-presented and include the Apology, excerpts from the Symposium and Parmenides, Physics, Nicomachean Ethics, De Anima and Metaphysics with new translations by Reeve of both Republic and Meno), Hellenistic philosophers including Epicurus, Greek stoics and Pyrrho of Elis, then to Romans such as Cicero, Lucretius, Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and Sextus Empiricus, closing with neoplatonists Plotinus and Proclus. |
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