the mid-first century BCE, when Pyrrhonism as a philosophical school was founded by Aenesidemus. The goal of Pyrrhonism is ataraxia, an untroubled and...
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Pyrrho (redirect from Pyrrhon of Elis)
have differed from later Pyrrhonism. Most of what we know today as Pyrrhonism comes through the book Outlines of Pyrrhonism written by Sextus Empiricus...
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Sextus Empiricus (redirect from Outlines of Pyrrhonism)
books on Pyrrhonism. The Suda also says Sextus wrote a book Ethica. Sextus Empiricus's three surviving works are the Outlines of Pyrrhonism (Πυῤῥώνειοι...
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Dogma (category Pyrrhonism)
used in English. In Pyrrhonism, "dogma" refers to assent to a proposition about a non-evident matter. The main principle of Pyrrhonism is expressed by the...
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Ancient Greek philosophy (section Pyrrhonism)
Pyrrhonism, which taught that it is one's opinions about non-evident matters (i.e., dogma) that prevent one from attaining eudaimonia. Pyrrhonism places...
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Pyrrhon is a technical death metal quartet based in Brooklyn, New York. Formed in 2008, the group comprises vocalist Doug Moore, guitarist Dylan DiLella...
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Platonism, making Platonism nearly the same as Pyrrhonism. After Arcesilaus, the Academics diverged from Pyrrhonism. This skeptical period of ancient Platonism...
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Ataraxia (category Pyrrhonism)
for soldiers entering battle. Achieving ataraxia is a common goal for Pyrrhonism, Epicureanism, and Stoicism, but the role and value of ataraxia within...
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Epoché (category Pyrrhonism)
judgment but also "withholding of assent". Epoché plays an important role in Pyrrhonism, the skeptical philosophy named after Pyrrho, who is regarded as the founder...
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Catuṣkoṭi (section Pyrrhonism)
iteration and pervasion between Pyrrhonism and Madhyamika: An extraordinary similarity, that has long been noticed, between Pyrrhonism and Mādhyamika is the formula...
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Aenesidemus (category Pyrrhonism)
is unknown: while Diogenes claims an unbroken lineage of teachers of Pyrrhonism from Pyrrho through Sextus, with Aenesidemus' teacher being Heraclides...
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Outlines of Pyrrhonism Book I, Chapter 33. Eusebius, Praeparatio Evangelica Chapter VI Numenius, fr. 25.64–71 Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Book...
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Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism 2008 Thomas McEvilley, The Shape of Ancient Thought 2002 pp. 499-505 Madhyamaka and Pyrrhonism...
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Substance theory (section Pyrrhonism)
and oblivious, in the eternal substance of the unmoved movers. Early Pyrrhonism rejected the idea that substances exist. Pyrrho put this as: "Whoever...
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proposition made by another). In philosophical skepticism, particularly that of Pyrrhonism, the existence of dissent is a rationale for suspending judgment regarding...
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History of atheism (section Pyrrhonism)
i. 42 Cicero, De Natura Deorum, i. 23 Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism Book III Section 218 Classic Drama Plays by Greek, Spanish, French, German...
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language - Pure practical reason - Pure reason - Pyrrhonian skepticism - Pyrrhonism - Pythagoreanism Qingtan - Quantum mysticism - Quietism Radical behaviorism...
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Xenophanes (section Influence on Pyrrhonism)
philosophy. Xenophanes's alleged skepticism can also be seen as a precursor to Pyrrhonism. Sextus quotes Pyrrho's follower Timon as praising Xenophanes and dedicating...
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Anattā (section Correspondence in Pyrrhonism)
Indian gymnosophists, which inspired him to create the philosophy of Pyrrhonism. Philologist Christopher Beckwith argues that Pyrrho based his philosophy...
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school Megarian school Academy Peripatetic school Hellenistic philosophy Pyrrhonism Stoicism Epicureanism Academic Skepticism Middle Platonism School of the...
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Causality (section Pyrrhonism)
edu.) Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism Book III Chapter 5 Section 17 Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism Book III Chapter 5 Section 20 William...
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Equanimity (section Pyrrhonism)
is better for thee than all else in either world."[citation needed] In Pyrrhonism the term used for equanimity is ataraxia, which means to be unperturbed...
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making Platonism nearly the same as Pyrrhonism. After Arcesilaus, Academic skepticism diverged from Pyrrhonism. The Academic skeptics did not doubt the...
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school Megarian school Academy Peripatetic school Hellenistic philosophy Pyrrhonism Stoicism Epicureanism Academic Skepticism Middle Platonism School of the...
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quietism about the realism debate offered by Gideon Rosen and John McDowell. Pyrrhonism represents perhaps the earliest example of an identifiably quietist position...
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Inductive reasoning (section Pyrrhonism)
ISBN 978-8120350748. Retrieved 1 December 2016. Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism. Trans. R.G. Bury, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts...
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school Megarian school Academy Peripatetic school Hellenistic philosophy Pyrrhonism Stoicism Epicureanism Academic Skepticism Middle Platonism School of the...
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Philosophical skepticism (section Pyrrhonism)
persuasive fashion for both sides of an issue." In Hellenistic philosophy, Pyrrhonism and Academic Skepticism were the two schools of skeptical philosophy....
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in the first century BCE, broke with the Academic skeptics and adopted Pyrrhonism, denouncing the Academy as "Stoics fighting against Stoics." The Academic...
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