The Heracliteanism of Aenesidemus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4790607 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John M Rist, John Μ Rist (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 309 |
| Publication date | 1970-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Phoenix (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8299 • E-ISSN: 1929-4883 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1087737 |
| OpenAlex | W2334291371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
THE CONCLUSIONS PROPOSED by this paper will be tentative, as is fitting in a discussion of one of the more interesting of the ancient Sceptics, but they will be offered as a solution to a problem of some importance in the history of Scepticism in antiquity which has often been avoided or solved unsatisfactorily. What follows could not have been written if we did not possess Dal Pra's excellent study of Aenesidemus,' but, although we must follow Dal Pra in many things, it is clear that certain difficulties still remain. Most of our evidence about Aenesidemus' views-and the evidence is substantial in Diogenes Laertius, Sextus Empiricus, Photius, and elsewhere-leads us to treat him as a hard-line Sceptic, but in a few places Sextus attributes to him theories of a different kind. It is said that
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2002 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |