The skeptical dynamis and its pragmatic possibilities / Rodrigo Pinto de Brito.
Brito, Rodrigo Pinto de.
2022
B837
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Title The skeptical dynamis and its pragmatic possibilities / Rodrigo Pinto de Brito.
Author Brito, Rodrigo Pinto de.
ISBN 9783030924072 (electronic bk.)
3030924076 (electronic bk.)
3030924068
9783030924065
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92407-2
Publication Details Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (170 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-92407-2 doi
Call Number B837
Dewey Decimal Classification 149/.73
Summary This monograph reevaluates a school of thought concerned with truth and inquiry. It examines the critique which asserts that it's not possible to live this Early Greek philosophy in practice. The investigation also details new discoveries on the reception of Skepticism by Empiricist Doctors, Early Greek Fathers, Medieval Arabic Thinkers, and Renaissance Thinkers. The author takes a careful look at the apraxia argument and how critics used it. He shows how anti-skeptical arguments rose in different stages of the development of the Skepticism. Coverage also details how the skeptics replied and gave more pragmatic coherence to their philosophy, starting with the proto-skeptics and continuing with the works of Sextus Empiricus. Readers will learn how skepticism endured despite the criticisms, becoming a coherent response to dogmatic philosophies such as Stoicism. The investigation also analyzes the two common approaches that philosophers have used to interpret Sextan philosophy. It considers their benefits as well as defects. In the process, the author presents an original way of interpreting Sextan thought, which the author calls the "suburban interpretation". He then applies this "middle way" to two works: Against the Grammarians and Against the Rhetoricians. Overall, the book provides readers with an insightful look at how this school of thought survived and spread throughout the ages
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 17, 2022).
Series Synthese library ; v. 455.
Available in Other Form Skeptical Dynamis and Its Pragmatic Possibilities.
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Part 1. On the Apraxia Argument. 1. Introduction
2. Apraxia and the Development of Ancient Skepticisms
3. Academics X Stoics
4. Sextus Empiricus
Part 2. The Skeptic and the Crafts. 5. Sextus Empiricus and the Elements
6. Sextus Against the Rhetoricians
7. Sextus and a Positive Conception of Techne
8. Final Remarks: On the Receiption of Skeptical Arguments and Their Transmission
References
Appendices.

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