SEXTUS EMPIRICUS

Sextus Empiricus, who probably lived between the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, was a Greek physician and philosopher, a representative of skepticism and the main historian of the skeptical movement. He probably lived in Rome, but perhaps also in Alexandria and Athens. In his eleven books, which have survived to us in tradition handed down, he presents on the one hand the history of the skeptical movement, which begins with Pyrrho (Pyrrhonians, syllogisms), on the other hand the objections of the skeptical movement to the dogmatic philosophers (To Logicians, To Physicists, To Moralists), but also to the teachers of the encyclical courses (To Mathematicians). His work constitutes a most valuable source for the history of thought (and of Skepticism).