Outlines of Animalism (Sexts Empiricus)

Who's read Outlines of Animalism by Sextus Empiricus?

Outlines of Animalism..... 

It's basically the view that we should live as dogs or more generally animals because dogs let go of their beliefs... basically beliefs lead to volition of for example heartrate or in general bodily motion which leads to suffering. We can't control events forced upon us but we can control the effects that our environment has on us by living as would dogs.

What do you think?

Mainly animalism is a method, not a proposition per se

Its not called Outlines of Animalism lol, its called Outlines of Pyrrhonism.

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sextus-empiricus/

You are confusing the skeptics and the cynics, cyne = dog.

Animals in Ancient Greece (dogs, even pigs as in the famous city of pigs in Plato's Republic) were not thought as rude and base (as today) but rather simple

http://www.iep.utm.edu/cynics/

So the term cynic (Cynics are like modern-day hippies) is certainly misleading. Diogenes is the paradigm of cynical thought, and he went around town with a lighted lamp in broad daylight asking anyone if they saw an honest person, as the story goes.

It is commonly known as Outlines of Pyrrhonism (remember Pyrrhic victory), and also Outlines of Scepticism. But less commonly it is also called Outlines of Animalism, which I prefer - in fact, considering things ipso facto I think it's the best translation. But of course you're right, thank you!

isn't it just outlines of... and then pyrrhos name? 

i dont believe its called also outlines of animalism. if you have sources for it i'd be interested in seeing them?

the pyrrho from the pyrrhic victory is another pyrrho, it was a normal name.

The phrase Pyrrhic victory is named after king Pyrrhus of Epirus, whose army suffered irreplaceable casualties in defeating the Romans at Heraclea in 280 BC and Asculum in 279 BC during the Pyrrhic War. After the latter battle, Plutarch relates in a report by Dionysius:

Pyrrho (/ˈpɪroʊ/; Greek: Πύρρων Pyrrōn, c. 360 BC – c. 270 BC), a Greek philosopher of Classical Antiquity, was a student of Eastern philosophy and is credited as being the first Greek skeptic philosopher and the inspiration for the school known asPyrrhonism, founded by Aenesidemus in the 1st century BC. He was exposed to Eastern (Indian) philosophy and introduced it to Greece and is popularly known for his skeptic philosophy modeled on the pioneering Indian skeptical philosophical schools and traditions

Yes that sounds about right. You obviously know your classics !

The only source I can give you is myself, saying that I know Ancient Greek and that the original title περιγράμματα σκεπτικισμός, the latter word is commonly translated as Animalism or something or other

In other words - I cannot find it in the google, but if you could search the scholarly journals you may be able to find it

As is quite common with philosophical papers