(Geneva), Henricus Stephanus (Estienne), H. Fugger (typogr.) 1562. 8vo. Near contemporary full calf with richly gilt spine. All edges of boards gilt. Wear to extremities and hinges, but overall tight and fine. Old owner's name to title-page and a stamp to blank margin (""Teres etque Rotundus"")). A few early underlinings. Two leaves with a damp stain, otherwise unusually nice and clean. Title-page slightly soiled. Woodcut printer's device to title-page and woodcut initials. 288 pp.
The very rare hugely influential first edition of one of the single most important printings in the history of Western thought, namely the very first appearance in print of any of Sextus Empiricus' works, his great ""Hypotyposes"". This seminal printing inaugurated a new era in the history of Western thought. Together with the second edition of the work (by Hervet, 1569, with which the ""Adversos Mathematicos"" also appeared), the first appearance of Sextus Empiricus' work profoundly influenced the thought of Bruno, Montaigne, Descartes, as well as many other pivotal thinkers of the modern era, and caused Sextus to be viewed as ""the father of modern philosophy"".""The printing of Sextus in the 1560s opened a new era in the history of scepticism, which had begun in the late fourth century BCE with the teachings of Pyrrho of Elis. [...] Before the Estienne and Hervet editions, Sextus seems to have had only two serious students, Gianfrancesco Pico at the turn of the century and Francesco Robortello about fifty years later."" (Copenhaver & Schmitt, pp. 240-41). Apart from being of seminal importance to the development of modern thought, the work is of the utmost scarcity and constitutes one of the rarest of all Estienne books. ""The first printed edition was by Henri Estienne (Stephanus) in 1562 of Sextus' ""Hypotyposes"". A second printed Latin edition of the ""Hypotyposes"" plus ""Adversus Mathematicos"" appeared in 1569. The text of the ""Hypotyposes is that of Estienne, the translation of ""Adversus Methematicos"" was done by French counter-reformer and theologian, Gentian Hervet... The Greek text was not published until 1621 by the Chouet brothers."" (Popkin, p. 18).Having been almost completely neglected throughout the entire Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, the first printing of Sextus' work in 1562 is almost solely responsible for the inauguration of a new skeptical era that came to profoundly influence almost all thinking of the centuries to follow. ""As the only Greek Pyrrhonian sceptic whose works survived, he came to have a dramatic role in the formation of modern thought. The historical accident of the rediscovery of his works at precisely the moment when the skeptical problem of the criterion had been raised gave the ideas of Sextus a sudden and greater prominence than they had ever before or were ever to have again. Thus, Sextus, a recently discovered oddity, metamorphosed into ""le divin Sexte"", who, by the end of the seventeenth century, was regarded as the father of modern philosophy. Moreover, in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the effect of his thoughts upon the problem of the criterion stimulated a quest for certainty that gave rise to the new rationalism of René Descartes and the ""constructive skepticism"" of Pierre Gassendi and Martin Mersenne."" (Popkin, p. 18).The discovery and dissemination of these foundational texts was nothing less than a epiphany. Scepticism was immediately absorbed into Renaissance thinking and quickly became a dominant strand of thought. ""The revival of ancient philosophy was particularly dramatic in the case of scepticism. This critical and anti-dogmatic way of thinking was quite important in Antiquity, but in the Middle Ages its influence faded [...] when the works of Sextus and Diogenes were recovered and read alongside texts as familiar as Cicero's ""Academia"", a new energy stirred in philosophy"" by Montaigne's time, scepticism was powerful enough to become a major force in the Renaissance heritage prepared for Descartes and his successors."" (Copenhaver & Schmitt, pp. 17-18). ""No discovery of the Renaissance remains livelier in modern philosophy than scepticism"". (Copenhaver & Schmitt, p. 338). ""The revived skepticism of Sextus Empiricus was the strongest single agent of disbelief"". (ibid., p. 346). Our knowledge of ancient scepticism comes almost solely from Sextus, who is introduced to the Renaissance in 1562 with this first printing of any of his works. From then on, skepticism grew rapidly, determining the course of much modern thought.""Ancient Scepticism had a number of followers in the renaissance, especially in the sixteenth century, when the writings of Sextus became more widely known. [...] Scepticism in matters of religion is by no means incompatible with religious faith, as the example of Augustine may show"" consequently this position had many more followers during the sixteenth century than is usually realized. The chief expression of this sceptical ethics is found in some of the essays of Montaigne, and in the writings of his pupil, Pierre Charon."" (Kristeller, p. 36).Adams: 1027. See:Kristeller: ""Renaissance Thought II. Papers on Humanism and the Arts"", 1965.Popkin: ""The History of Scepticism. From Savonarola to Bayle"", 2003.Copenhaver & Schmitt: ""Renaissance Philosophy"", 1992.
Paris, Abraham Picard, 1621. Folio. Nice mottled full calf binding (ab. 1850) with richly gilt spine and gilt title-labels. Minor wear to extremities. Lower blank margin of first two leaves repaired, far from affecting text, and very neatly restored wormhols to lower blank margin to a number of other leaves leaves, barely visible and also far from affecting text (apert from the index, where it touches a couple of letters). A bit of very light scattered brownspotting. All in all a very nice, clean, and fresh copy. Engraved title-vignette, woodcut ornamental borders and large woodcut initials to first leaves. (22), 521, (41, -Index) pp.
The very rare editio princeps of one of the single most important ""opera"" in the history of Western thought, namely the first edition of the original Greek text of the collected works of Sextus Empiricus, a body of writing that came to determine the course of much modern thought, influencing the thought of Bruno, Montaigne, Descartes, and many other pivotal thinkers of the modern era. The present collection of writings constitutes one of the the single most important texts in the history of skepticism, determining the course of modern thought. ""No discovery of the Renaissance remains livelier in modern philosophy than scepticism"". (Copenhaver & Schmitt, p. 338). ""The revived skepticism of Sextus Empiricus was the strongest single agent of disbelief"". (ibid., p. 346). ""As the only Greek Pyrrhonian sceptic whose works survived, he came to have a dramatic role in the formation of modern thought. The historical accident of the rediscovery of his works at precisely the moment when the skeptical problem of the criterion had been raised gave the ideas of Sextus a sudden and greater prominence than they had ever before or were ever to have again. Thus, Sextus, a recently discovered oddity, metamorphosed into ""le divin Sexte"", who, by the end of the seventeenth century, was regarded as the father of modern philosophy. Moreover, in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the effect of his thoughts upon the problem of the criterion stimulated a quest for certainty that gave rise to the new rationalism of René Descartes and the ""constructive skepticism"" of Pierre Gassendi and Martin Mersenne."" (Popkin, p. 18).""The revival of ancient philosophy was particularly dramatic in the case of scepticism. This critical and anti-dogmatic way of thinking was quite important in Antiquity, but in the Middle Ages its influence faded [...] when the works of Sextus and Diogenes were recovered and read alongside texts as familiar as Cicero's ""Academia"", a new energy stirred in philosophy"" by Montaigne's time, scepticism was powerful enough to become a major force in the Renaissance heritage prepared for Descartes and his successors."" (Copenhaver & Schmitt, pp. 17-18). The work appeared in two variants, one printed in Paris by the Chouet brothers, and the present printed by Picard, also in Paris. No precedence between the two has been established, but the present Picard-printing is the scarcest.
<p>Introduction et notes de : René Lefebvre Sextus Empiricus (IIe-IIIe s. ap. J.-C.) est le dernier philosophe sceptique de l'Antiquité et le seul dont l'œuvre soit en grande partie conservée. Son Contre les dogmatiques prend pour cible la connaissance philosophique. Cet ensemble de traités très argumenté est articulé suivant la distinction, d'époque hellénistique, entre trois parties de la philosophie, la logique, la physique et l'éthique. On donne ici la première traduction française de la première et plus importante partie de cet ouvrage, le Contre les logiciens, qui conteste la possibilité même de connaître. Prenant appui sur la distinction entre « choses apparentes et « choses cachées , Sextus Empiricus traite en premier lieu du « critère de la vérité ou des voies d'accès à la connaissance des choses apparentes. Un long développement doxographique qui conduit des philosophes présocratiques aux Stoïciens, aux Épicuriens et aux Académiciens précède l'exposé des arguments qui plaident en faveur de l'inexistence d'un tel critère. Au livre II, Sextus Empiricus met en question, à propos des choses cachées, le « vrai lui-même, avant de faire ressortir la faiblesse de l'inférence sémiotique et celle de la démonstration. L'ouvrage porte ainsi à notre connaissance tout à la fois des doctrines dogmatiques — comme la logique stoïcienne — auxquelles nous aurions moins accès sans son témoignage, et une bonne partie de l'argumentaire sceptique déployé depuis la renaissance du pyrrhonisme, à l'époque d'Énésidème, qui serait autrement perdue. </p> Paris, 2019 Belles Lettres 416 p., broché. 13,5 x 21
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S.l. [Amsterdam], s.n., 1725 ; in-12. Portrait-16 ff. non chiffrés (préface et table)-434pp. basane fauve, dos à nerfs orné, pièce de titre en maroquin rouge, tranches rouges. 1 coin légèrement frotté. Bon exemplaire.
Edition originale. Barbier (Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes) attribue cette première traduction française des "Esquisses" (ou Hypotyposes) du médecin et philosphe grec Sextus Empiricus, au mathématicien genevois Claude Huart. ( Sur Claude Huart, voir : Eugène RITTER, "Claude Huart : traducteur des Hypotyposes de Sextus Empiricus". Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire du Protestantisme Français. Vol. 70, No. 2 (Avril-Juin 1921), pp. 107-115).
1725 1725 S.l. 1725. Traduction de Huart.1 volume in-12 plein veau d'époque, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons, pièce de titre maroquin rouge, [1f.] blanc, portrait en frontispice, page de titre, [22pp.] de préface, [8pp.] de tables, 434 pages et [1f.] blanc.Coiffe supérieure arasées, épidermures sur les plats, léger accident au dos, coins émoussés, intérieur frais.
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Paris, Aubier- Montaigne, 1948, In douze, 348 pp, bon état, non coupé
traduction de Jean Grenier et geneviève Goron ,collection : " bibliothèque philosophique".
CHEZ L'ARTISTE. 1725. In-16. Relié plein cuir. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos à nerfs, Intérieur frais. 434 pages. Frontispice en noir et blanc hors-texte. Bandeaux, lettrines et culs-de-lampe. Relié plein cuir marron. Pièce de titre bordeaux. Titre et caissons dorés sur le dos à 5 nerfs. Tranches rouges.. . . . Classification Dewey : 930-Histoire générale du monde ancien jusqu'à 499 apr. J.-C.
Traduites du grec en 3 livres. Classification Dewey : 930-Histoire générale du monde ancien jusqu'à 499 apr. J.-C.
AUBIER - MONTAIGNE. 1948. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 348 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES
Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES
Harvard University Press (7/1989)
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Oxford, Clarendon Press 1997 xxxiv + 302pp., 23cm., in the series "Later ancient philosophers", hardcover (cloth), dustwrapper, VG, [English translation]
Paris, Editions du Seuil 2002, 180x105mm, 486pages, broché. Très bel exemplaire.
édition bilingue: français - grec ancien, Cachet de possesseur.
Paris, Editions du Seuil 1997, 180x105mm, 570pages, broché. Bel exemplaire.
édition bilbingue: français - grec ancien, Cachet de possesseur.
AUBIER. 1948. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 348 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 100-PHILOSOPHIE ET DISCIPLINES CONNEXES
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