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The Sceptical Road

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The revival of Scepticism in the first century B.C. is due to Aenesidemus of Cnossus. Nonetheless, very little is known of him, and much of it seems to suggest that his thought tended more towards ...
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  • 31 March 2004
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The revival of Scepticism in the first century B.C. is due to Aenesidemus of Cnossus. Nonetheless, very little is known of him, and much of it seems to suggest that his thought tended more towards Dogmatism, and Heraclitean philosophy in particular. The puzzle has set the scene for a long-term debate, but, as yet, no agreed solution has been propounded. The present book provides a close examination of ancient evidence as well as of critical literature, and arrives at the conclusion that Aenesidemus merely intended to offer a Sceptical interpretation of Heraclitus, and that the ideas which are incorporated in it voice distinctive features of his Scepticism.
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Price: $189.00
Pages: 216
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Philosophia Antiqua
Publication Date: 31 March 2004
ISBN: 9789004137424
Format: Hardcover
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'...Polito's work is a most valuable contribution to the study not only of Aenesidemus's so-called Heracliteanism, but also of his own from of Scepticism. Anyone working on these issues will have to take this book into account.'
Diego E. Machuca, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 2006.
Roberto Polito, Ph.D. (1999) in Classics, University of Cambridge, has published a number of papers in Hellenistic philosophy and medicine, and is currently completing an edition, with commentary, of testimonia on Aenesidemus.