Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.22.176

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[176] Οὕτω μὲν οὖν διαφέρονται περὶ τῆς ἐννοίας τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ οἱ δοκιμώτατοι δοκοῦντες εἶναι τῶν δογματικῶν· ὁμοίως δὲ διηνέχθησαν καὶ περὶ τοῦ κακοῦ, λέγοντες (Stoic. fr.
III 77 Arn.) κακὸν εἶναι βλάβην ἢ οὐχ ἕτερον βλάβης, ¹ οἱ δὲ τὸ δι’ ἑαυτὸ φευκτόν, οἱ δὲ τὸ κακοδαιμονίας ποιητικόν. δι’ ὧν οὐχὶ τὴν οὐσίαν τοῦ κακοῦ, ἀλλά τινα τῶν συμβεβηκότων ’ίσως αὐτῷ φάσκοντες εἰς τὴν προειρημένην ἐμπίπτουσιν ἀπορίαν.

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.) — 3.22.176 focus

[176] Such, then, is the discord amongst those who are reputed the most eminent of the Dogmatists regarding the notion of the Good; and they have differed likewise regarding Evil, some defining Evil as ‟damage or not other than damage,”¹ others as ‟what is to be shunned for its own sake,” others as ‟what is productive of unhappiness.” But since they express by these phrases not the essence of evil but some of its possible attributes they are involved in the logical impasse mentioned above.

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