Chapter XXI.—Concerning The Ethical Division Of Philosophy

[168] There remains the Ethical division, which is supposed to deal with the distinguishing of things good,¹ bad, and indifferent. In order, then, to treat of this branch also in a summary way, we shall inquire into the reality of things good, bad, and indifferent, explaining first the conception of each.

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. Robert Gregg Bury (Translator). London. 1933.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism (English) (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.)

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Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus. Sexti Empiricii Opera, Volume 1. Mutschmann, Hermann, editor. Leipzig: Teubner, 1912.) — 3.21 focus

κα′ περὶ τοῦ ἠθικοῦ μέρους τῆς φιλοσοφίας.

[168] Λείπεται τὸ ἠθικόν, ὅπερ δοκεῖ τὴν διάκρισιν τῶν τε καλῶν καὶ κακῶν καὶ ἀδιαφόρων καταγίγνεσθαι. ἵνα
οὖν κεφαλαιωδῶς καὶ περὶ τούτου διαλάβωμεν , περὶ τῆς ὑπάρξεως τῶν τε ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν καὶ ἀδιαφόρων ζητή- σωμεν, τὴν ἔννοιαν ἑκάστου προεκθέμενοι.

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism

1. Lit. ‟fair” (honestum): the Stoics used καλόν as a synonym for ἀγαθόν ‟good” (bonum), and in this section the terms are used as synonymous.

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.21

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Chapter XXI.—Concerning The Ethical Division Of Philosophy

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κα′ περὶ τοῦ ἠθικοῦ μέρους τῆς φιλοσοφίας.

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