Sextus Empiricus (ca. 160-210 CE), exponent of scepticism and
critic of the Dogmatists, was a Greek physician and philosopher,
pupil and successor of the medical sceptic Herodotus (not the
historian) of Tarsus. He probably lived for years in Rome and
possibly also in Alexandria and Athens. His three surviving works
are "'Outlines of Pyrrhonism'" (three books on the practical and
ethical scepticism of Pyrrho of Elis, ca. 360-275 BCE, as developed
later, presenting also a case against the Dogmatists); "'Against
the Dogmatists'" (five books dealing with the Logicians, the
Physicists, and the Ethicists); and "'Against the Professors'" (six
books: Grammarians, Rhetors, Geometers, Arithmeticians,
Astrologers, and Musicians). These two latter works might be called
a general criticism of professors of all arts and sciences.
Sextus's work is a valuable source for the history of thought
especially because of his development and formulation of former
sceptic doctrines.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Sextus Empiricus is in
four volumes.
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