Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.27

Robert Gregg Bury (Translator)

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Chapter XXVII.—Is The Art Of Living Capable Of Being Taught?

[252] But neither is it acquired by teaching and learning. For in order that these should subsist, three things must first be agreed upon—the matter which is being taught, the teacher and the learner, and the method of learning. But none of these subsists; neither, then, does teaching.

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.) — 3.27 focus

κζ′ εἰ διδακτή ἐστιν ἡ περὶ τὸν βίον τέχνη.

[252] Ἀλλ' οὐδὲ διδασκαλίᾳ καὶ μαθήσει ἀναλαμβάνεται.
ἴνα γὰρ ὑπόστασιν ἔχῃ ταῦτα, δεῖ τρία προωμολογῆσθαι, τὸ διδασκόμενον πρᾶγμα, τὸν διδάσκοντα καὶ τὸν μανθάνοντα, τὸν τρόπον τῆς μαθήσεως. οὐδὲν δὲ τούτων ὑφέστηκεν· οὐδὲ ἡ διδασκαλία ἄρα.

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κζ′ εἰ διδακτή ἐστιν ἡ περὶ τὸν βίον τέχνη.

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