κς′ εἰ γίνεται ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἡ περὶ τὸν βίον τέχνη.

[250] Καὶ μὴν εἰ γίνεται ἐν ἀνθρώποις ἡ περὶ τὸν βίον τέχνη, ἤτοι φύσει ἐγγίνεται αὐτοῖς ἢ διὰ μαθήσεως καὶ
διδασκαλίας. ἀλλ’ εἰ μὲν φύσει, ἤτοι καθό εἰσιν ἄνθρωποι ἐγγίνοιτο ἂν αὐτοῖς ἡ περὶ τὸν βίον τέχνη, ἢ καθὸ οὔκ εἰσιν ἄνθρωποι. καθὸ μὲν οὖν οὔκ εἰσιν ἄνθρωποι, οὐδαμῶς· οὐδὲ γὰρ οὔκ εἰσιν ἄνθρωποι. εἰ δὲ καθό εἰσιν ἄνθρωποί, πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ὑπῆρξεν ἂν ἡ φρόνησις,
¹ 180 ὧς πάντας εἶναι γρονίμους τε καὶ ἐναρέτους καὶ σοφούς.

[251] φαύλους δὲ τοὺς πλείστους λέγουσιν. οὐκοῦν οὐδὲ καθό εἰσιν ἄνθρωποι ὑπάρξειεν ἂν αὐτοῖς ἡ περὶ τὸν βίον τέχνη. οὐδὲ φύσει ἄρα. καὶ ἄλλως, ἐπειδὴ (Stoic. fr. 173
Arn.) τὴν τέχνην σύστημα ἐκ καταλήψεων εἷναι ² βούλονται συγγεγυμνασμένων, διὰ πείρας τέ τινος καὶ μαθήσεως ἐμφαίνουσι μᾶλλον ἀναλαμβάνεσθαι τάς τε ἄλλας τέχνας καὶ ταύτην περὶ ἧς ὁ λόγος.

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.) — 3.26 focus

Chapter XXVI.—Does The Art Of Living Arise In Mankind?

[250] Moreover, if the art of living comes into existence in men, it so comes either by nature or through learning and teaching. But if it is by nature, then the art of living will arise in them either in so far as they are men, or in so far as they are not men. Certainly not in so far as they are not men; for it is not a fact that they are not men. But if it is in so far as they are men, then prudence¹ would have belonged to all men, so that all would have been prudent and virtuous and wise. But they describe most men as bad.

[251] Neither, then, in so far as they are men will the art of living belong to them. Therefore it does not accrue by nature. And again, since they insist that art is ‟a system of co-exercised apprehensions,”² they make it evident that the art under discussion, as well as all other arts, is acquired rather by some sort of effort and learning.

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Pyrrhoniae hypotyposes

1. 1 οὐδὲ GT (nec): οὐδὲν edd. 4 ἐπέβαλλε Bekk.: ἐπέβαλε G: expedit Τ 5 <τὸ μνῆμα> ἐᾶς. Dyroff coll. p. 583, 28 18 ὑπαρκτὴ MEAB: ὑπαρκτικὴ L 25 ὑπῆρχεν Kayser

2. 30a

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