Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.5.22

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[22] Ὁ ἄνθρωπος τοίνυν δοκεῖ μοι, ὅσον ἐπὶ τοῖς λεγομένοις ὑπὸ τῶν δογματικῶν, οὐ μόνον ἀκατάληπτος, ἀλλὰ καὶ
ἀνεπινόητος εἶναι. ἀκούομεν γοῦν τοῦ παρὰ Πλάτωνι Σωκράτους (Phaedr. p. 230 a) διαρρήδην ὁμολογοῦντος μὴ εἰδέναι, πότερον ἄνθρωπός ἐστιν ἢ ἕτερόν τι. παριστάναι τε βουλόμενοι τὴν ἔννοιαν αὐτοῦ πρῶτον μὲν διαφωνοῦσιν, εἶτα καὶ ἀσύνετα λέγουσιν.

Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes. Sextus Empiricus. ed. Hermann Mutschmann. Germany. 2014.

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

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Outlines of Pyrrhonism First1KGreek (Sextus Empiricus, Vol. 1. Bury, Robert Gregg, translator. London: William Heinemann Ltd.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.) — 2.5.22 focus

[22] Now ‟Man” (if he is ‟the agent”) seems to me, so far as regards the statements made by the Dogmatists, to be not only non-apprehensible but also inconceivable. At least we hear the Platonic Socrates¹ expressly confessing that he does not know whether he is a man or something else. And when they wish to establish the concept of ‟Man” they disagree in the first place, and in the second place they speak unintelligibly.

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