Sextus Empiricus
2nd-century Roman philosopher and physician · Academics · Lived 200 to 300 · aged 100
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Something wrong?A Greek physician and philosopher whose writings became the main surviving window into Pyrrhonist skepticism - the school that doubted whether certain knowledge was even possible.
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, If Socrates died, then either he died when he was living, or when he was dead. But he couldn't have died when he was living, for he was not dead when he was living.
If [the gods] provided for all things, there would be nothing bad and evil in the universe; but [people] say that everything is full of evil.
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Sextus Empiricus lived in the mid-to-late second century CE, practicing medicine in the Empiric tradition while holding Roman citizenship. He belonged to the Pyrrhonist school, which suspended judgment on whether humans could grasp objective truth. His philosophical works outlasted nearly all other Pyrrhonist texts, preserving not only that tradition's arguments but also detailed critiques of rival Hellenistic philosophies. Those critiques turned his books into an unintended archive: much of what we know about competing ancient schools survives because Sextus wrote them down to argue against them.
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