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Title Pyrrhonian skepticism in Diogenes Laertius / introduction, text, translation, commentary and interpretative essays by Katja Maria Vogt, Richard Bett, Lorenzo Corti, Tiziano Dorandi, Christiana M. M. Olfert, Elisabeth Scharffenberger, David Sedley, and James Warren ; edited by Katja Maria Vogt.

Publication Info. Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, 2015.

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Description 1 electronic resource (x, 202 pages).
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Series Sapere : scripta antiquitatis paosterioris ad ethicam religionemque pertinentia = Schriften der späteren Antike zu ethischen und religiösen Fragen ; Band XXV
Sapere (Darmstadt, Germany) ; Bd. 25.
Note Original text in Greek, introduction, text, translation, commentary and essays in English.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
Language 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.
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Summary 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.
Note This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Subject Diogenes Laertius. Pyrrho.
Diogenes Laertius. Timon.
Philosophy, Ancient.
Skepticism.
Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
Philosophie ancienne.
Scepticisme.
Sceptiques (Philosophie grecque)
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Philosophy, Ancient
Skepticism
Skeptics (Greek philosophy)
Skepticism.
Added Author Container of (expression): Diogenes Laertius. Pyrrho. English (Scharffenberger and Vogt)
Container of (expression): Diogenes Laertius. Pyrrho. Greek (Dorandi)
Container of (expression): Diogenes Laertius. Timon. English (Scharffenberger and Vogt)
Container of (expression): Diogenes Laertius. Timon. Greek (Dorandi)
Bett, Richard Arnot Home, author.
Corti, Lorenzo, author.
Dorandi, Tiziano, editor.
Olfert, Christiana M. M., author.
Scharffenberger, Elizabeth Watson, translator.
Sedley, D. N., author.
Vogt, Katja Maria, 1968- editor, translator, author.
Other Form: Print version: Pyrrhonian skepticism in Diogenes Laertius Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, 2015. 9783161533365 (DLC) 2015398472
ISBN 3161533364 (hd. bd.)
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3161564308 (electronic bk.)
3161533364
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CHVBK 556240189
CHNEW 001035556
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