Sextus Empiricus: Against the Ethicists: (Adversus Mathematicos XI) (Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers)

Empiricus, Sextus

ISBN 10: 0198250975 / ISBN 13: 9780198250975

Published by Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

About this Item

This volume contains a translation into clear modern English of an unjustly neglected work by Sextus Empiricus, together with introduction and extensive commentary. Sextus is our main source for the doctrines and arguments of ancient Scepticism; in Against the Ethicists he sets out a distinctive Sceptic position in ethics. Editor(s): Bett, Richard. Translator(s): Bett, Richard. Series: Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers. Num Pages: 340 pages, bibliography, indexes. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398. . 2000. Revised ed. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sextus Empiricus: Against the Ethicists: (Adversus Mathematicos XI) (Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198250975
• ISBN 13: 9780198250975
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Richard Bett is Professor of Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He was educated at Oxford and at the University of California, Berkeley, and he was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas, Arlington, from 1986 to 1991.