Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 2.5.27

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[27] τά τε κείμενα ἐν τῷ ὅρῳ συμβεβηκότα ἤτοι κατ’ ἐνέργειαν λέγουσιν ἢ δυνάμει. εἰ μὲν οὖν κατ’ ἐνέργειαν, οὐκ ἔστιν ἄνθρωπος ὁ μὴ ἐπιστήμην ἤδη τελείαν ἀνειληφὼς καὶ ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τέλειος ὢν καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ ἀποθνῄσκειν καθεστώς· τοῦτο γὰρ τὸ ἐνεργείᾳ
θνητόν ἐστιν. εἰ δὲ δυνάμει, οὐκ ἔσται ἄνθρωπος οὔτε ὁ ¹ 62 τὸν λόγον ἔχων τέλειον οὔτε ὁ νοῦν καὶ ἐπιστήμην ἀνειληφώς· καὶ] τοῦτο δὲ τοῦ προτέρου ἐστὶν ἀτοπώτερον. καὶ ’ ravrrj ccqcc ἀσύστατος Ttecprjvev tj iTtlvoia rov ἀνθρώπου.

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.) — 2.5.27 focus

[27] And the attributes contained in this definition are used either in an ‟actual,” or full, or in a potential sense;¹ if in a full sense, he that has not already acquired complete science and is not rationally perfect and in the very act of dying—for this is to be mortal in the full sense of the word—is not a man. And if the sense is to be potential, then he will not be a man who possesses reason in perfection or who has acquired intelligence and science; but this conclusion is even more absurd than the former.

In this way, then, the concept of Man is shown to be one which it is impossible to frame.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. apud ipsum Τ (= παρ’ αὐτῷ?) at cf p. 82, 27. 6 παρὰ ML: περὶ EABT (circa) 8 ἐπινοῆσαι? 9 τοιουτονὶ scr. coU. p. 249,4: τοιοῦτοί· Gr 11 ἔσται? 12 μὲν om. M 16 δὲ addidi 20 addain τῶν δογματικῶν post αὐτῶν 24 ἀνειληφὼς Pappenheim coll. p. 62, 27. 167,24: ἀπειληφὼς G: qui accepit T (cf. ad v. 27/28)

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 2.5.27

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