
HoP 073 - Healthy Skepticism - Sextus Empiricus
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Sextus - The Last Chapter of Scepticism
Sextus took pyro as a roll model and founder of the sceptical outlook, which he called pyranism. His writings were not very influential in subsequent centuries. Only when they were rediscovered in the sixteenth century did they make a sensation. They inspired pro and anti sceptical philosophical discussions from gasendi to hume.
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