Sextus Empiricus. Esquisses pyrrhoniennes. Voyages practitioners belonging to a universe

practitioners belonging to a universe with traditions radically different from those adopted by the West

Ce catalogue de l'exposition Mémoire d'Egypte réalisée pour le bicentenaire de la naissance de Champollion

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have enjoyed remarkable success

and the result of several years of personal research

Sextus Empiricus. Esquisses pyrrhoniennes. Voyages practitioners belonging to a universeIntroduction, translation and commentary by Pierre Pellegrin. Diogenes Laertius reports the opinion that the first of the skeptics was Homer; he thus says, in his doxographer's words, that skepticism follows philosophy "as the shadow follows the body." Now the only complete exposition of this reverse side of Greek rationalism to have come down to us is that of Sextus Empiricus, and the Pyrrhonian Sketches, a small compendium of skeptical philosophy