Concept
Epoché
Overview
In Hellenistic philosophy, epoché (also
epoche;
pronounced or
;
Greek: ἐποχή, romanized: epokhē, lit. 'cessation')
is suspension of judgment but also "withholding of assent".
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And after having explained this, he adds, that there are two senses in which the wise man may be said to suspend his assent: one, when it is understood that he, as a general rule, assents to nothing; the other, when he forbears answering, so as to say that he approves or disapproves of anything, or, so as to deny or affirm anything. This being the case, he approves of the one sense, so as never to assent to…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by
States what Epoché is.
The doctrine then of retaining the assent is not, as Colotes thinks, a fable or an invention of rash and light-headed young men who please themselves in babbling and prating; but a certain habit and disposition of men who desire to keep themselves from falling into error, not leaving the judgment at a venture to such suspected and inconstant senses, nor suffering themselves to be deceived by those who hold that in…
Plutarch, Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3
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The Spartan Ephors, approving the judgment of one of an ill conversation, ordered it to be communicated to the people by a person of better life and reputation; thereby wisely and politicly using them to give more deference to the morals than to the words of such as pretend to advise them. But now in philosophy the reputation of the speaker must be pulled off, and his words examined naked and without a mask; for in…
Plutarch, Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1
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Philosophers who discussed Epoché
Related ideas
- Epictetus
- Bracketing (phenomenology)
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Suspension of judgment
- Pyrrhonism
- Pyrrho
- Aenesidemus
- Sextus Empiricus
- Stoicism
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Ataraxia
- Academic skepticism
- Skepticism
- Phenomenology (philosophy)
- Edmund Husserl
- Agrippa the Skeptic
Place in the tradition
Part of Academic skepticism.