Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.23.183

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[183] Ἔτι κἀκεῖνο λέγουσί τινες, ὅτι ἀγαθόν ἐστιν ἤτοι τὸ αἱρεῖσθαι αὐτὸ ἢ ἐκεῖνο ὃ αἱρούμεθα. τὸ μὲν οὖν αἱρεῖσθαι οὐκ ἔστιν ἀγαθὸν κατὰ τὸν ἴδιον λόγον· οὐ γὰρ ἂν ἐσπεύδομεν τυχεῖν ἐκείνου ὃ αἱρούμεθα, ἵνα μὴ ἐκπέσωηεν τοῦ ἔτι αὐτὸ αἱρεῖσθαι, οἷον εἰ ἀγαθὸν ἦν τὸ ἀντιποιεῖσθαι
ποτοῦ, οὐκ ἂν ἐσπεύδομεν ποτοῦ τυχεῖν· ἀπολαύσαντες γὰρ τούτου τῆς ἀντιποιήσεως αὐτοῦ ἀπαλλαττόμεθα. καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ πεινῆν ὁμοίως καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐρᾶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων. οὐκ ἄρα τὸ αἱρεῖσθαι δι’ αὐτὸ αἱρετόν ἐστιν, εἰ μή γε καὶ ὀχληρόν· καὶ γὰρ ὁ πεινῶν σπεύδει μετα- ¹² 164 σχεῖν τροφῆς, ὅπως ἀπαλλαγῇ τῆς ἐκ τοῦ πεινῆν ὀχλήσεως,
καὶ ὁ ἐρῶν ὁμοίως καὶ ὁ διψῶν.

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.) — 3.23.183 focus

[183] Further, it is asserted by some that Good is either the Choice¹ itself or that which we choose. Now Choice is not good according to its proper meaning; else we would not have been hurrying to obtain that which we choose, for fear of losing the power of continuing to choose it; for example, if the seeking to get drink were good, we would not have hurried to obtain drink; for when we have enjoyed it we are quit of seeking to get it. So, too, with hunger and love and the rest. Choice, then, is not choiceworthy in itself, even if it is not actually disagreeable; for in fact the hungry man hurries to partake of food in order to get quit of the discomfort due to his hunger; and so likewise the man in love and the thirsty man.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ 183–184 ~ adv. dogm. V 79—84.

2. 28 τὸν addidi 30 ἢ ἐκτὸς vel ἢ del. Apelt 3 ἐπεὶ L 8 τῇδε LEAB: τῆ Μ 9 τῆς add. Bekk. 24 εἴγε μὴ A

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.23.183

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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