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Title: The Modes of Scepticism: Ancient Texts and Modern Interpretations by Julia Annas, Jonathan Barnes ISBN: 0-521-27644-6 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00

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Summary: a key to lost treasures
Comment: This book is a careful and methodical examination of the ten modes of sceptical denial of dogmatism set forth by Sextus Empiricus, Philo and Diogenes Laertius. These ancient writers prove the fact that human struggle with ignorance is not so recent as commonly believed. It turns out that a tradition of wisdom in the form of judiciously withheld belief has been available to us through the ages.

The authors provide a key to our human past which is resplendant with careful contemplation. The work holds new significance in light of the most recent finding in physics and cosmology which place immutable limits upon our further scientific progress.

Given the fact that we must live with limits to our knowledge, the historical context of humans who struggled with such limits provide a therapeutic consolation-- we simply fit ourselves into the long struggle.

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