Opera Graece et Latine (Pyrrhoniae institutiones; Contra mathematicos; Contra philosophos)
- Language:
- Greek
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand) · 2 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~590,000 words · 2,809 passages
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- APASextus Empiricus. (n.d.). Opera Graece et Latine (Pyrrhoniae institutiones; Contra mathematicos; Contra philosophos). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/sextus-empiricus/opera-graece-et-latine-pyrrhoniae-institutiones-contra-mathematicos-contra-philosophos
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What it is about
The whole of Sextus Empiricus: the Outlines of Pyrrhonism, which set out the sceptical method, and Against the Mathematicians and Against the Philosophers, which apply it discipline by discipline.
Context and history
Sextus was writing around the second or third century and is our principal source for Pyrrhonism: much of what is known about ancient scepticism comes from these pages. When the work was printed again in the sixteenth century, in Greek and Latin, it shook early modern Europe — Montaigne comes straight out of it, and Descartes wrote the method of doubt with these arguments in front of him.
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ΠῚ, Pro humaniorum et liberalium disciplinarum orbe atqu ἐγκυκλοπαιδείᾳ ponuntur τὰ μαϑήματα, atque inde. mathemati pro harum peritis ἃ Cebete in Tabula p. G9 edit. lacobi Gro novii; πότερον οὐδὲν προέχουσιν οὗτοι οἱ μαϑηματικοί (ἀΐχετα autem p. 20 de poétis, rhetoribus, diale«ticis, musicis, arithineticis geometris astrologis et criticis sive grammbticis) πρὸς τὸ βελτέου. γενέσθαι τῶν ἄλλων ἀνθρώπων; πῶς μέλλουσι προέχειν - -. οὐδὲν γὰρ κωλύες εἰδέναι μὲν γρώμματα καὶ x — τὰ μα. Pinar. πάντα, ὁμοίως δὲ μέϑυσον xol ἀχρατῆ καὶ φιλ. LIBROR. ADV. MATHEMATICOS, ὅ ἄργυρον καὶ ἄδικον καὶ προδότην καὶ τὸ —— ἄφρονα, hoc sensa. accipiendus Sextus noster libro primo adversus Grammaticos sect, 1 et 6, 97 et 50, ubi τὰ μαϑήματα hoc est humaniores disciplinas philosophiae: opponit. atque hoc sensu intelligendum, quando Sextus ἀντίρρησιν suam direxit adversus mathematicos. haud dubie enim falluntur qui ad illam pertinere etiam existimant libros quinque posteriores, quibus ἀντίθρησις adversus philosophes continetur, a libra adversus mathematicos distincta ab auctore et separata. itaque brem sextum adversus musicos qui commentariorum adversus mathematicos est ultimus, claudit his verbis: ἐν τοσούτοις τὴν πρὸς. τὰ μαϑήματα διέξοδον ἀπαρτίζομεν. | IV. Denique Mathematicorum nomen viri docti pufant tam late patere, ut universae efiam philosophiae. disciplinas ambitu suo complectatur logicam, physicam atque ethicam: eoque sensu Sextum aceepisse illud vocabulum quando "contra mathematicos scribere se profssus mon modo grammaticos et rhetores geometrasque atque arthmeticos , musicos et astrologos, sed queque rationalis, naturiis ac moralis philosophiae professores oppugnandos sibi sumsit. .…