Pyrrho, his Antecedents, and his Legacy

Bett, Richard

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“…It should be noted that Alan Bailey’s book, whose main purpose is to provide an examination of Sextus’ Pyrrhonism from a systematic perspective, discusses at length the outlooks of other Pyrrhonists and the most important Academic skeptics (Bailey 2002). As regards specifically Pyrrhonian skepticism, Richard Bett’s work on Pyrrho should also be mentioned because it explores Pyrrho’s possible antecedents and the later Pyrrhonism of Aenesidemus and Sextus (Bett 2000). In addition, Bett has just edited an authoritative companion to ancient skepticism which contains contributions by some of the leading specialists in the field (Bett 2010).…”

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Ancient Skepticism: Overview

Machuca

2011

Philosophy Compass

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Scholarship on ancient skepticism has witnessed a remarkable renaissance in the last three decades. Specialists in ancient philosophy have explored the complex history of the Greco‐Roman skeptical traditions and discussed difficult philological and exegetical issues. But they have also assessed the philosophical significance of the various ancient skeptical outlooks. In this first paper, I provide a general presentation of this area of study, while in the two subsequent articles I will focus on some of the topics that have been the object of much attention in the recent literature on ancient skepticism.

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“…7 7 For a detailed account of the differences between Pyrrho’s outlook and the later Pyrrhonian tradition, see especially Bett (2000). Of value are also the relevant chapters in Brochard (2002).…”

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2011

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“…This theory is also tributary to Augustinus of Hippo (354-430 A.D.), who put a strong emphasis on moral perfection (Curley, 1996). The epistemic approaches pay a tribute to Socrates (Plato, 1997), Pyrrhon (Bett, 2000), Sextus Empiricus (1987Empiricus ( , 1993, the Hellenistic sceptics such as Carneades (Long, 1986), Hume (1965Hume ( , 1978Hume ( , 1985, and Montaigne (1991), and to philosophers of the 19th century such as Schopenhauer (vanity of the world) (1976) and Nietzsche (a way of dealing with knowledge) (Sloterdijk, 1983).…”

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“…The epistemic wisdom theory departs from Hellenistic scepticism, grounded by Pyrrhon of Elis (Bett, 2000;Burnyeat & Frede, 1997;Floridi, 2002;Hankinson, 1995;Sextus Empiricus, 1993). The core of this Hellenistic sceptism, as passed down by Sextus Empiricus in the second century, six centuries after the original form of the theory was devised by Pyrrhon of Elis (365-275 B.C.…”

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Annual Reports in Medicinal Chemistry

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“…A school that would see a revival in the late second century CE with Sextus Empiricus. See Bailey (2002);Bett (2003). 212 Although it was a common trope in anti-magical writing to complain that its practitioners functionally denied the existence of the gods because of the power they claimed over them (Hp.…”

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Did Magic Matter? The Saliency of Magic in the Early Roman Empire

Meggitt

2013

Journal of Ancient History

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Magic is usually assumed to have been ubiquitous and culturally significant in the early Roman Empire, something exemplified by Pliny the Elder's claim that "there is no one who does not fear to be spell-bound by curse tablets".1 A variety of written and material evidence is commonly taken to be indicative of both the regular use of magic and widespread anxiety about its deployment. However, this paper argues that if we attempt, having determined a contextually appropriate definition of magic, to gauge the prevalence and significance of magic in this period, it can be seen to have had little cultural salience. Not only is evidence for its presence more equivocal than usually presumed, but magic is found to be strikingly absent from major popular cultural sources that shed light on the presuppositions and preoccupations of most of the empire's inhabitants, and to have had little explanatory or symbolic utility. The paper then proceeds to suggest possible reasons for magic's lack of salience in the early Empire, including the role of various sceptical discourses concerned with the supernatural in general and magic in particular, and the consequence of the largely agonistic context of its use on the limited occasions that it was employed.

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Pyrrho, his Antecedents, and his Legacy

Cited by 36 publications

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Ancient Skepticism: Overview

Ancient Skepticism: Overview

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Did Magic Matter? The Saliency of Magic in the Early Roman Empire

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