Stoic Six Pack 4: the Sceptics

Diogenes Laertius, Empiricus, Sextus, Mary Mills Patrick, Norman MacColl, Edwyn Bevan

Stoic Six Pack 4: the Sceptics
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lulu.com
Country
United States
Published
6 December 2015
Pages
224
ISBN
9781329741768

Stoic Six Pack 4: the Sceptics

Diogenes Laertius, Empiricus, Sextus, Mary Mills Patrick, Norman MacColl, Edwyn Bevan

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A sextet of sceptic texts has been collected in Stoic Six Pack 4 - The Sceptics: Pyrrhonic Sketches by Sextus Empiricus, Life of Pyrrho by Diogenes Laertius, Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Mary Mills Patrick, The Greek Sceptics: from Pyrrho to Sextus by Norman MacColl, Stoics and Sceptics by Edwyn Bevan and Life of Carneades by Diogenes Laertius. A key concept for the sceptics was ataraxia ("tranquility"), a Greek term used by Pyrrho to describe a lucid state of robust tranquility, characterized by ongoing freedom from distress and worry. By applying ideas of what he called "practical skepticism" to Ethics and to life in general, Pyrrho concluded that ataraxia could be achieved. Arriving at a state of ataraxia became the ultimate goal of the early Skeptikoi.

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