Year: 2011
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: attentively read his Against the Ethicists have gotten the impression that something strange is going on in this book.1 For, at variance with the ‘official ’ Pyrrhonian attitude of universal suspension of judgment, a num-ber of passages of AM XI seem to ascribe to the Pyrrhonist both a type of negative dogmatism and a form of realism, which together amount to what may be called ‘moderate ethical realism’. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether Sextus does embrace such a position in AM XI.2 I will begin by examining Sextus ’ treatment of the ethical part of phi-losophy not only in AM XI but also in the ethical section of the third book of the Outlines of Pyrrhonism (PH). This will allow us to identify the type of ethical realism Sextus seems to espouse in AM XI. I will then present the views of the scholars who have examined the skepticism defended in this book, focusing on Richard Bett’s interpretation because it is the most original, thorough, and controversial. Next, I will show that
Source: BRILL eBooks
Author: Diego E. Machuca
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W217208085