Pyrrhonian Skepticism in Diogenes Laertius Katja Maria Vogt.

Editor
Vogt, Katja Maria [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1. Aufl.
Published/​Created
  • Mohr Siebeck 2015
  • Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2015.
Description
1 online resource (213 p.)

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Series
Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam REligionemque pertinentia 3
Summary note
This volume offers the first bilingual edition of a major text in the history of epistemology, Diogenes Laertius's report on Pyrrho and Timon in his Lives of Eminent Philosophers. Leading experts contribute a philosophical introduction, translation, commentary, and scholarly essays on the nature of Diogenes's report as well as core questions in recent research on skepticism.
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Language note
Title page, introduction and critical essays in English; text in Greek, with translation into English on opposite pages. Text by Tiziano Dorandi; translation by Elizabeth Scahffenberger and Katja Maria Vogt
Contents
  • Introduction : skepticism and metaphysics in Diogenes Laertius / Katja Maria Vogt
  • Pyrrhonism in Diogenes Laertius / Richard Bett
  • Precursors of pyrrhonism : Doig. Laert 9.67-73 / James Warren
  • Mind and language of the Laërtian pyrrhonist : Diog. Laert 9.74-77 / Lorenzo Corti
  • Skeptical investigation and its perks : Diog Laert. 9.69-70 and 79-89 / Christiana M. M. Olfert
  • Diogenes Laertius on the ten pyrrhonist modes / David Sedley.
ISBN
3-16-156430-8
Doi
  • 10.1628/978-3-16-156430-7
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