Sextus Empiricus : Against the Ethicists (Adversus Mathematicos XI)

by: Bett, R.

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Sextus Empiricus: Against the Ethicists
Sextus Empiricus
Translated with an introduction and commentary by Richard Bett
Clarendon Press

Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers
Against the Ethicists is an unjustly neglected work by one of the most important figures in ancient philosophy
This is the only commentary in English, and the only satisfactory English translation
The ideal companion to study of this work
The most important work yet covered in the Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers series
Published simultaneously with Bett's major new work on Pyrrho

Description
About Sextus:

Sextus Empiricus is one of the most important ancient philosophical writers after Plato and Aristotle. His writings are our main source for the doctrines and arguments of Scepticism. He probably lived in the second century AD. Eleven books of his writings have survived, covering logic, physics, ethics, and numerous more specialized fields.

About Against the Ethicists:

In this unjustly neglected and misunderstood work Sextus sets out a distinctive Sceptic position in ethics. He discusses the concepts good and bad, and puts forward the sceptical argument that nothing is either good or bad by nature or intrinsically or invariably, but only relatively to persons and/or to circumstances. He then argues that the sceptic is better off than the non-sceptic. In the latter part of the book, Sextus attacks the Stoic view that there is such a thing as a 'skill for life'.

About this edition:

This volume contains a translation of Against the Ethicists into clear modern English, together with an introduction and a detailed commentary. Those who have discussed this work in the past have tended to underestimate it, often regarding its main position as essentially the same as that of Sextus' better-known Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Richard Bett shows that Against the Ethicists represents a quite distinct and coherent philosophical outlook, associated with a phase of Scepticism earlier than Sextus himself, an outlook of which little other evidence survives.

Table of Contents
Introduction; Against the Ethicists: translation; Commentary; Appendices; Bibliography; Indexes.

Author Information
Sextus Empiricus

Translated with an introduction and commentary by Richard Bett, Professor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Sextus Empiricus : Against the Ethicists (Adversus Mathematicos XI)

by: Bett, R.

• ISBN-13: 9780198250975 / 978-0-19-825097-5
• ISBN-03: 0198250975 / 0-19-825097-5
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000

Price: 50,00 EURO

1 copy in stock