Editing Sextus Empiricus (section)

== Legacy ==
An influential [[Latin]] translation of Sextus's ''Outlines'' was published by [[Henricus Stephanus]] in [[Geneva]] in 1562,<ref>Bican Şahin, [''Toleration: The Liberal Virtue''], Lexington Books, 2010, p. 18.</ref> and this was followed by a complete Latin Sextus with [[Gentian Hervet]] as translator in 1569.<ref>[[Richard Popkin]] (editor), ''History of Western Philosophy'' (1998) p. 330.</ref> Petrus and Jacobus Chouet published the Greek text for the first time in 1621. Stephanus did not publish it with his Latin translation either in 1562 or in 1569, nor was it published in the reprint of the latter in 1619.

Sextus's ''Outlines'' were widely read in [[Europe]] during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and had a profound effect on [[Michel de Montaigne]], [[David Hume]] and [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]], among many others. Another source for the circulation of Sextus's ideas was [[Pierre Bayle]]'s ''Dictionary''. The legacy of Pyrrhonism is described in [[Richard Popkin]]'s ''The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Descartes'' and ''High Road to Pyrrhonism''. The transmission of Sextus's manuscripts through antiquity and the Middle Ages is reconstructed by [[Luciano Floridi]]'s ''Sextus Empiricus, The Recovery and Transmission of Pyrrhonism'' (Oxford: [[Oxford University Press]], 2002). Since the Renaissance, French philosophy has been continuously influenced by Sextus: [[Michel de Montaigne|Montaigne]] in the 16th century, [[René Descartes|Descartes]], [[Blaise Pascal]], [[Pierre-Daniel Huet]] and [[François de La Mothe Le Vayer]] in the 17th century, many of the "Philosophes", and in recent times controversial figures such as [[Michel Onfray]], in a direct line of filiation between Sextus' radical skepticism and secular or even radical atheism.<ref>Recent Greek-French edition of Sextus's works by Pierre Pellegrin, with an upbeat commentary. Paris: Seuil-Points, 2002.</ref>