Hellenistic Philosophy Introductory
Sextus Empiricus: Ethics 397 who think that he is enmeshed in inactivity or inconsistency. 163. [They think that he will be enme ...
Aenesidemus 301 or false, plausible or implausible, existing or not; rather, the same thing, so to say, is no more true than fal ...
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302 ///-25 to ///-26 that appearances are signs of non-evident things, and says that these are not at all existent, whereas thos ...
Glossary We trust the reader to find compound words and negations by looking under the main root. For example, the explanation f ...
Sextus Empiricus: General Principles 303 the Stoics and certain others; among those who deny that truth can be grasped are Carne ...
400 beautiful (kalon): benefit (opheleia): Glossary The same term is usually translated 'honourable' (q.v.). In Stoicism, benefi ...
304 /l/-26 so that, as we said, the word "ability" is taken simply [i.e., unqualifiedly], or it may be taken with the words "set ...
Glossary 401 desire (epithumia): irrational striving, one of the four passions in Stoicism. Desire (orexis) is also used in a mo ...
Sextus Empiricus: General Principles 305 when he feels hot or cold he would not say, "I seem not to be hot, or not to be cold." ...
402 Glossary good state [of the soul] (eupatheia): in Stoicism, a virtuous reaction by the soul; good states are joy, caution, a ...
306 /l/-26 dence regarding any of the matters which have been subject to dogmatic assertions in physical theory, we do not have ...
Glossary 403 in another sense it is what makes no difference at all in ethics, absolute indif- ference. individual quality (idio ...
Sextus Empiricus: General Principles 307 conduct, since we are not able to be completely inactive. It seems that the rules of ev ...
404 Glossary nature (phusis): The meaning of the term is just as wide in Hellenistic thought as it is in Greek philosophy genera ...
308 ///-26 to ///-27 inconsistency of appearances and ideas, and not being able to do this, they suspended judgement. Being in t ...
Glossary 405 there are (at least in Epicureanism and Stoicism) material entities which cannot be directly perceived. See also es ...
Sextus Empiricus: General Principles 309 Sextus PH 1.210-241 [III-27] Ch. xxix That the Sceptical Approach Differs from Heraclit ...
406 Glossary suspension of judgement (epoche): a mental state or act characterized by an absence of commitment to or belief in d ...
310 /l/-27 it is said that Democritus reasons that honey itself is neither sweet nor bitter and because of this makes the scepti ...
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