Sextus Empiricus. Esquisses pyrrhoniennes. Voyages Sarcophagi

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

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Sextus Empiricus. Esquisses pyrrhoniennes. Voyages SarcophagiIntroduction, 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