The Original Sceptics : A Controversy
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Description
These five essays began a debate about the nature and scope of ancient scepticism which has transformed our understanding of what scepticism originally was. Together they provide a vigorous and highly stimulating introduction to the thought of the original sceptics, and shed new light on its relation to sceptical arguments in modern philosophy.
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Product details
- Paperback | 168 pages
- 140 x 216 x 12.7mm | 199g
- 01 Nov 1997
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Cambridge, MA, United States
- English
- UK ed.
- bibliography
- 0872203476
- 9780872203471
- 674,695
Table of contents
The sceptics' beliefs; can the sceptic live his scepticism?; the beliefs of a Pyrrhonist; the sceptic in his place and time; the sceptic's two kinds of assent.
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Review quote
The Original Sceptics contains a wealth of analysis, argument and philological comment, and it undoubtedly succeeds in making the reader aware of the difficulties involved in discovering what the ancient sceptics really held. --F. C. White, Australasian Journal of Philosophy
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About Myles Burnyeat
Burnyeat and Frede
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