# Sextus Empiricus

- Id: `sextus_empiricus`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/fr/penseurs/sextus-empiricus/`
- Language: `fr`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `c1b5c511d80e64fdb650f41332224ab3ab8e3a120a8e8d4ddf5f8075e12bf543`

## Résumé

Médecin et auteur sceptique, Sextus Empiricus suspend le jugement quand les arguments opposés restent de force égale.

## Présentation

Cette reconstruction est historiquement bornée à 250 après J.-C.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "IIe–IIIe siècles après J.-C.",
    "era": "Époque hellénistique et romaine",
    "distance": "il y a environ 1 776–1 876 ans",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "skepticism",
    "name": "Scepticisme",
    "detail": "Scepticisme pyrrhonien",
    "labels": [
        "Scepticisme",
        "Scepticisme pyrrhonien"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 250,
    "display": "250 après J.-C.",
    "reason": "Conservative outer bound for an author usually placed in the second or early third century CE; exact dates and place remain unknown."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 5,
    "passages": 2735,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "grc"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Alexandria?",
        "period": "2nd-3rd century CE",
        "description": "Association possible dans les reconstructions modernes, sans certitude.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sextus-empiricus/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Rome?",
        "period": "2nd-3rd century CE",
        "description": "Autre contexte proposé ; la biographie reste exceptionnellement incertaine.",
        "confidence": "D",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sextus-empiricus/"
    }
]
```