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Selections from the Major Writings on Scepticism, Man, and God

“Judicious in every respect: selection, translation and structuring of the texts, footnotes, bibliography, and index. . . . The book of choice for undergraduate courses.”
    —Edward M. Galligan, University of North Carolina

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25561g

Sextus Empiricus
Edited by Philip P. Hallie
Translated by Sanford G. Etheridge

1985 - 252 pp.

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Format ISBN Price Qty
Cloth 978-0-87220-007-4
$35.00
Paper 978-0-87220-006-7
$14.00
Instructor Examination (Review) Copy 978-0-87220-006-7
$4.00

Reviews:

“Judicious in every respect: selection, translation and structuring of the texts, footnotes, bibliography, and index. . . . The book of choice for undergraduate courses.”
    —Edward M. Galligan, University of North Carolina

 

Contents:

  • Foreword. Preface. Translator’s Note.
  • Classical Scepticism—A Polemical Introduction
  • Part One: Scepticism, from Outlines of Pyrrhonism: Book 1, from Bks. 2-3
  • Part Two: On Man, from Against the Logicians, Book 1
  • Part Three: On God, from Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Book Three; from Against the Physicists, Book One