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Sextus Empiricus Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)

Sextus Empiricus By Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)

Sextus Empiricus by Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)


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An accurate and readable new translation of an important work of ancient scepticism. Providing crucial background information and elucidation of difficult passages and supplemented by extensive interpretive aids, this is an indispensable edition for the advanced student and scholar of Sextus' work.

Sextus Empiricus Summary

Sextus Empiricus by Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)

Sextus Empiricus' Against the Physicists examines numerous topics central to ancient Greek inquiries into the nature of the physical world, covering subjects such as god, cause and effect, whole and part, bodies, place, motion, time, number, coming into being and perishing and is the most extensive surviving treatment of these topics by an ancient Greek sceptic. Sextus scrutinizes the theories of non-sceptical thinkers and generates suspension of judgement through the assembly of equally powerful opposing arguments. Richard Bett's edition provides crucial background information about the text and elucidation of difficult passages. His accurate and readable translation is supported by substantial interpretative aids, including a glossary and a list of parallel passages relating Against the Physicists to other works by Sextus. This is an indispensable edition for advanced students and scholars studying this important work by an influential philosopher.

Sextus Empiricus Reviews

...Bett supplements his excellent translation with helpful secondary materials, including a valuable and rich provision of footnotes (over 300) discussing philological and textual as well as philosophical and substantive issues. The result is not only a translation of great fidelity and precision - sure to become the standard - but an edition of Sextus' work that will benefit both students and scholars interested in ancient physics and skepticism.... Bett has combined a readable yet faithful translation with a conscientious, erudite and intelligent commentary. His edition approaches asymptotically the experience of a philosophically informed encounter with the source text... -- Clifford Roberts, Cornell University, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

About Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)

Richard Bett is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Pyrrho, his Antecedents and his Legacy (2000) and of translations of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Ethicists, with commentary (1997) and Against the Logicians, with notes (Cambridge, 2005). He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (Cambridge, 2010).

Table of Contents

Abbreviations; Introduction; Note on the text and translation; Outline of argument; Book 1; Book 2; Glossary; List of names; Parallels between Against the Physicists and other works of Sextus; Bibliography.

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NLS9781107532274
9781107532274
1107532272
Sextus Empiricus by Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2015-07-02
214
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