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Sextus Empiricus

160 - 210

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Sextus Empiricus (Ancient Greek: Σέξτος Ἐμπειρικός, Sextos Empeirikos; fl. mid-late 2nd century CE) was a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher and Empiric school physician with Roman citizenship. His philosophical works are the most complete surviving account of ancient Greek and Roman Pyrrhonism, and because of the arguments they contain against the other Hellenistic philosophies, they are also a major source of information about those philosophies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sextus Empiricus is the 186th most popular philosopher (down from 162nd in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 61st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Egyptian Philosopher.

Sextus Empiricus is most famous for his work "Outlines of Pyrrhonism." His work is a commentary on the teachings of Pyrrho of Elis, who was a skeptic philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Sextus Empiricus ranks 186 out of 1,267. Before him are Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Carl Schmitt, Cesare Beccaria, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Claude Adrien Helvétius, and Jean Baudrillard. After him are José Ortega y Gasset, Bernard Bolzano, Gemistus Pletho, Pierre Gassendi, Pierre Bayle, and Kabir.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 160, Sextus Empiricus ranks 2. Before him is Julia Domna. After him is Sextus Julius Africanus. Among people deceased in 210, Sextus Empiricus ranks 1. After him is Zhou Yu.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Sextus Empiricus ranks 68 out of 642. Before him are Shoshenq I (-1000), Wazner (-3500), Ptolemy VI Philometor (-184), Apollonius of Rhodes (-295), Dorothy Hodgkin (1910), and Saint Sarah (100). After him are Tiye (-1398), Ayman al-Zawahiri (1951), Mary of Egypt (344), Ptolemy VIII Physcon (-182), Arsinoe III of Egypt (-246), and Appian (95).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Egypt

Among philosophers born in Egypt, Sextus Empiricus ranks 5. Before him are Origen (185), Plotinus (203), Athanasius of Alexandria (295), and Philo (-15). After him are Muhammad Abduh (1849), Ammonius Saccas (175), John Philoponus (490), Saadia Gaon (882), Dhul-Nun al-Misri (796), Valentinus (100), and Ammonius Hermiae (440).

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