Article: Skepticism, truth, and the good life: a comparison of Zhuangzi and Sextus Empiricus.

Article: Sextus Empiricus. Outlines of Scepticism.
The Review of Metaphysics;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... thoroughly informed by recent developments in the scholarly and philosophical discussion of Hellenistic philosophy, of Sextus Empiricus' Pyrroneioi Hypotyposeis (PH), the Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Moreover, Annas and Barnes augmented their translation ...

Encyclopedia entry: Sextus Empiricus
Who's Who in the Classical World;      564 words ...Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhonist Sceptic (see PYRRHON ) and medical doctor. Nothing is known about his life, but the name ‘Empiricus ...

Article: The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of ...
The Review of Metaphysics;  June 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... and, by doing so, show that it is a philosophical viewpoint worthy of serious attention by contemporary philosophers. Sextus Empiricus (second century A.D.) is the chief source of information on this viewpoint, and since his Outlines provide the most ...

Sextus Empiricus: Against the Grammarians. (book review)
The Philosophical Review;  July 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by D. L. BLANK. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. lvi, 436. This book is the recent addition to the Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers series, and its greatest significance lies in its being the sole commentary on Against the Grammarians. It

Article: Poems Of Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Lotos-Eaters
Great Works of Literature;      700+ words ...00-00-0000 The Lotos-Eaters Courage! he said, and pointed toward the land, This mounting ... faces pale against that rosy flame, The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters came. Branches they bore of that enchanted stem, Laden with ...

Article: Skepticism: Academic and Pyrrhonian
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World;      700+ words ... ... Vanitatis (1520) drew on both Cicero and Sextus Empiricus. Omer Talon emphasized the philosophical ... The publication of the works of Sextus Empiricus in the 1560s replaced Cicero's writings ... of the Alexandrian Greek physician Sextus Empiricus (second century c.e.), including ...

Article: Etudes sur les philosophies Hellenistiques: Epicurisme, ...
The Review of Metaphysics;  September 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... transmitted by the Pyrrhonian skeptic, Sextus Empiricus. By dint of painstaking archeological ... heritage conceptual dans le scepticisme: Sextus Empiricus et la notion de [GREEK TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE ... TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] chez Sextus Empiricus" defends a broadly ...