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Sextus Empiricus
Against the Ethicists, Book XI of Against the Learned Section 47
Section 47 of 257
Canonical reference 11.47
Ancient Greek
Hermann Mutschmann and Jürgen Mau, editors · adversus-grc
εἰσὶ δὲ οἱ τοσοῦτον ἀπέχοντες τοῦ ἐξαιρεῖν τὸ γένος τῶν περὶ σώματι ἀγαθῶν, ὧς καὶ ἐν αὐτοῖς τὸ ἀρχικώτατον ἀπολιπεῖν ἀγαθόν· ὁποῖοί εἰσιν οἱ τὴν κατὰ σάρκα ἡδονὴν ἀσπαζόμενοι. καὶ ἕνα μὴ δοκῶμεν νῦν ἐπὶ πλεῖον ἐκτείνειν τὸν λόγον παριστάντες, ὅτι ἀσύμφωνός ἐστι καὶ μαχομένη ἡ περὶ ἀγαθοῦ τε καὶ κακοῦ τῶν ἀνθρώπων κρίσις, ἐπὶ ἑνὸς ὑποδείγματος ποιησόμεθα τὴν ὑφήγησιν, καθάπερ τῆς ὑγείας, ἐπεὶ καὶ συνηθέστερός ἐστιν ἡμῖν ὁ περὶ αὐτῆς λόγος.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
There are some so far from excluding the class of bodily goods that they place the chief good among them, as do those who embrace bodily pleasure. So that we may not now seem to extend our argument too far in showing that human judgement about good and evil is discordant and conflicting, we shall conduct the discussion through a single example, health, since discussion of it is also more familiar to us.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Certains sont si loin d’exclure le genre des biens corporels qu’ils placent parmi eux le bien principal. Tels sont ceux qui accueillent le plaisir de la chair. Pour ne pas sembler prolonger excessivement maintenant notre exposé en montrant combien les jugements humains sur le bien et le mal sont discordants et opposés, nous conduirons l’examen à partir d’un seul exemple, celui de la santé, puisque les considérations qui la concernent nous sont plus familières.
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