DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-A106-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 24, 2023, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/sextus-empiricus-fl-c-ad-200/v-1
Version: v1, Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 24, 2023, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/sextus-empiricus-fl-c-ad-200/v-1
Article Summary
Sextus Empiricus is our major surviving source for Greek scepticism. Three works of his survive: a general sceptical handbook (Outlines of Pyrrhonism), a partly lost longer treatment of the same material, and a series of self-contained essays questioning the utility of the individual liberal arts.
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