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Article: Sextus Empiricus. Outlines of Scepticism.
- Article from:
- The Review of Metaphysics
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
- Author:
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Edited by Julia Annas and Jonathan Barnes. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xxxv + 248 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $19.95 -- Reviewers greeted the first edition (1994) of this volume with enthusiasm and gratitude. Annas and Barnes made available something long needed: a modern translation into English, 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 with three useful features.
First, in one series of ...
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