Sextus Empiricus Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes 3.3.5

ed. Hermann Mutschmann

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[5] χωρὶς δὲ τούτων εἰπάτωσαν ἡμῖν, τί ἐστι τὸ μακάριον, πότερον
τὸ ἐνεργοῦν κατὰ ἀρετὴν καὶ προνοούμενον τῶν ὑφ’ ἑαυτὸ τεταγμένων, ἢ τὸ ἀνενέργητον καὶ μήτε αὐτὸ πράγματα ἔχον μήτε ἑτέρῳ παρέχον· καὶ γὰρ καὶ περὶ τούτου διαφωνήσαντες ἀνεπικρίτως ἀνεννόητον ἡμῖν πεποιήκασι τὸ μακάριον, διὰ δὲ τοῦτο καὶ τὸν θεόν.

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.) — 3.3.5 focus

[5] And apart from this, let them tell us what a ‟blessed” thing is—whether it is that which energizes according to virtue and foreknows what is subject to itself, or that which is void of energy and neither performs any work itself nor provides work for another.¹ For indeed about this also they disagree interminably and thus render ‟the blessed” something we cannot conceive, and therefore God also.

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