Against the arithmeticians

• Verfasst von: Sextus <Empiricus> [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Against the arithmeticians
• Mitwirkende: Corti, Lorenzo [ÜbersetzerIn] [VerfasserIn eines Vorworts] [KommentarverfasserIn]
• Werktitel: Adversus arithmeticos
• Verf.angabe: Sextus Empiricus ; translated with an introduction and commentary by Lorenzo Corti
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: VI, 228 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Philosophia antiqua ; volume 167
• Fussnoten: A translation and commentary of Sextus' part IV, of Against the professors, known as Pros arithmetikous ; Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 978-90-04-67949-8
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Sextus, Empiricus: Against the arithmeticians. - Leiden : Brill, 2024. - 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 228 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: FH 67001
• K10plus-PPN: 186606553X

Abstract

"Arithmetic deals with numbers: but what is the nature of their existence, of their parts, and of their relationship with countable items? These questions nourished a lively debate between the Platonico-Pythagorean tradition (trying to answer them) and the Pyrrhonian tradition (trying to show that these answers were unsatisfactory). The debate lies at the heart of Sextus Empiricus' Against the Arithmeticians. The present book aims at facing the remarkable historical and philosophical questions raised by Sextus' treatise by offering a new translation of it and the first dedicated commentary to it"--