Sextus Empiricus: Against Those in the Disciplines: Translated with Introduction and Notes

ISBN-13: 9780198712701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Richard Bett

Opis

This is the first complete English translation of Sextus Empiricus' Against Those in the Disciplines that includes substantial interpretive aids, including introduction, extensive notes, and glossary. The work discusses six specialized fields of study: grammar, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astrology, and music.

Recenzje

Against Those in the Disciplines remains a work of considerable interest... Richard Bett's excellent translation does a great service Máté Veres, Journal for the Study of Skepticism

O autorze

Richard Bett is Professor of Philosophy and Classics at Johns Hopkins University. His scholarly work has focused particularly on the ancient sceptics. He is the author of Pyrrho, his Antecedents and his Legacy (Oxford, 2000), and has translated Sextus Empiricus' Against the Ethicists (Oxford, 1997, with Introduction and Commentary), Against the Logicians (Cambridge, 2005, with Introduction and Notes) and Against the Physicists (Cambridge, 2012, with Introduction and Notes). He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (Cambridge, 2010). He has also published articles on Plato, Socrates, the Sophists, the Stoics and Nietzsche.