Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, ed. Hermann Mutschmann, 3.23.187

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[187] ἴνα δὲ καὶ ταῦτα παραλείπωμεν, πῶς ἄρα καὶ λέγουσιν ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ τὸ ἀγαθὸν γίνεσθαι; εἰ γοῦν
ὁ Ἐπίκουρος ἐν ἡδονῇ τίθεται τὸ τέλος καί φησι τὴν ψυχήν, ἐπεὶ καὶ πάντα, ἐξ ἀτόμων συνεστάναι, ¹² 165 πῶς ἐν ἀτόμων σωρῷ δυνατὸν ἡδονὴν γίγνεσθαι καὶ συγ- κατάθεσιν ἢ κρίσιν τοῦ τόδε μὲν αἱρετὸν εἶναι καὶ ἀγαθόν,
τόδε δὲ φευκτὸν καὶ κακόν, ἀμήχανον εἰπεῖν.

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.) — 3.23.187 focus

[187] But, to pass over these objections, in what manner does the good, according to them, come about in the soul? For certainly, if Epicurus makes the End consist in pleasure and asserts that the soul, like all else, is composed of atoms, it is impossible to explain how in a heap of atoms there can come about pleasure and assent or judgement that this object is choiceworthy and good, that object to be avoided and evil.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. §§ — 186 ~ adv. dogm. V 87—89.

2. 29 fort. <τῆς σαρκὸς> κίνησιν coll. p. 48, 32. 1 γίνεται Τ (fit): ἐγγίνεται G 3 αὐτῷ MAB: αὐτὸ LET (ad ipsum) 6 ἢ περὶ ἀμφότερα del. Kayser coll. p. 166, 7/8. 9 ἑαυτῷ T (in se): ἑαυτὸ G 19 παραλείπωμεν ML: παραλίπομεν EAB

Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.23.187

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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