Sextus Empiricus: against those in the disciplines

✍ Scribed by Bett, Richard Arnot Home;Empiricus Sextus

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 281
Edition: First edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

IntroductionNote on the Text and TranslationOutline of ArgumentBook 1: Introduction to the Entire Work
General Arguments against the Disciplines
Against the GrammariansBook 2: Against the RhetoriciansBook 3: Against the GeometersBook 4: Against the ArithmeticiansBook 5: Against the AstrologersBook 6: Against the MusiciansPersons Referred to in Against those in the DisciplinesGlossaryParallels between Against those in the Disciplines and other Works of Sextus

✦ Subjects

PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Ancient & Classical;;Electronic books;Sextus, -- Empiricus. -- Pros mathēmatikous;PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical;Pros mathēmatikous (Sextus, Empiricus)

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