Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.23.186

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[186] λείπεται λέγειν, ὅτι περὶ ψυχὴν μόνην τὸ ἀγαθόν ἐστιν. καὶ τοῦτο δὲ ἐξ ὧν οἱ δογματικοὶ λέγουσιν ἀδύνατόν ἐστιν. ἡ γὰρ ψυχὴ τάχα μὲν καὶ ἀνύπαρκτός ἐστιν· εἰ ’δε
καὶ ὑπάρχει, ὅσον ἐφ’ οἷς λέγουσιν οὐ καταλαμβάνεται, καθὼς ἐπελογισάμην ἐν τῷ περὶ κριτηρίου λόγῳ (ΙΙ 31 — 33). πῶς δ’ ἂν θαρροίη τις ἐν ἐκείνῳ τι γίνεσθαι λέγειν, ὃ μὴ καταλαμβάνει;

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.) — 3.23.186 focus

[186] There remains the alternative that the good is in the soul only. But this, too, is impossible if we go by the statements of the Dogmatists. For the soul is, perhaps, actually non-existent;¹ and even if it exists, judging by what they say it is not apprehended, as I have argued in my chapter ‟On the Criterion.” How then could one venture to affirm that something takes place in a thing which he does not apprehend?

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