Description: Further DetailsTitle: Outlines of PyrrhonismCondition: NewEAN: 9780879755973ISBN: 9780879755973Publisher: Prometheus BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 05/01/1990Item Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmAuthor: Sextus EmpiricusLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0879755970Description: Throughout history philosophers have sought to define, understand, and delineate concepts important to human well-being. One such concept is "knowledge." Many philosophers believed that absolute, certain knowledge, is possible—that the physical world and ideas formulated about it could be given solid foundation unaffected by the varieties of mere opinion.Sextus Empiricus stands as an example of the "skeptic" school of thought whose members believed that knowledge was either unattainable or, if a genuine possibility, the conditions necessary to achieve it were next to impossible to satisfy. In other words, in the absence of complete knowledge, one must make do with the information provided by an imperfect world and conveyed to the mind through sense impressions that can often deceive us. Throughout his life Sextus Empiricus entered into intellectual combat with those who confidently claimed to possess indubitable knowledge. For skeptics, the best one can hope to achieve is a reasonable suspension of judgment—remaining ever mindful that claims to knowledge require careful scrutiny, thoughtful analysis, and critical review if we are to prevent ourselves and others from plunging headlong into mistaken notions.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Great Books in PhilosophyRelease Year: 1990 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Title: Outlines of Pyrrhonism
EAN: 9780879755973
ISBN: 9780879755973
Release Date: 05/01/1990
Release Year: 1990
ISBN-10: 0879755970
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: Great Books in Philosophy
Book Title: Outlines of Pyrrhonism
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication Year: 1990
Topic: Epistemology, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Logic
Item Height: 0.6 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Philosophy
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Sextus Empiricus
Item Width: 5.5 in
Book Series: Great Books in Philosophy Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback