Anyone ever read "Outlines of Scepticism"?

[Narz]

Has anyone ever read the book "Outlines of Scepticism" by Sextus Empiricus? Some guy on the chess server was talking to me about it.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Haven't read it, but on some looking around it seem like the ol' boy denied the possibility of causality. I suspect it's a strange read ...

 

[Narz]

Haven't read it, but on some looking around it seem like the ol' boy denied the possibility of causality. I suspect it's a strange read ...

Yes, seems like it.

 

[Richard Cribb]

I read it some 20 years ago when studying philosophy.
As far as I remember it is basically a compilation of the thoughts of other writers and school, and as such valuable and interesting to students of the history of philosophy, even if it might not be totally reliable.
However, it is also rather dry and a bit suffering from verbosity, so if scepticism is your whisky, I think you might as well turn to that fine and spiritual writer David Hume.

 

[thetrooper]

Speaking of whisky - David Hume could outconsume Schopenhauer and Hegel.

I haven't read it Narz, but I will when I'm 64.

 

[Narz]

Thanks for the tip Luce.