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Pyrrhonism
Overview
school of philosophical skepticism founded by Pyrrho, in Greece, 4th century, BCE
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129. There is, indeed, a more _mitigated_ scepticism or _academical_ philosophy, which may be both durable and useful, and which may, in part, be the result of this Pyrrhonism, or _excessive_ scepticism, when its undistinguished doubts are, in some measure, corrected by common sense and reflection. The greater part of mankind are naturally apt to be affirmative and dogmatical in their opinions; and while they see…
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
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The Reformers embraced the same principles of reasoning, or rather declamation; and all panegyrics on the excellency of faith, were sure to be interlarded with some severe strokes of satire against natural reason. A celebrated prelate too,[3] of the Romish communion, a man of the most extensive learning, who wrote a demonstration of Christianity, has also composed a treatise, which contains all the cavils of the…
David Hume, Philosophical Works, v. 2
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Distinguishing its elements and parts, it gives them separate names, and what it thus disjoins it can not easily put together. Pyrrhonism accepts the irrationality and revels in its dialectic elaboration. Other philosophies try, some by ignoring, some by resisting, and some by turning the dialectic procedure against itself, negating its first negations, to restore the fluent sense of life again, and let redemption…
William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism
Names Pyrrhonism.
Philosophers who discussed Pyrrhonism
- Stilpo
- Galen
- Heraclitus
- Pyrrho
- Lucian
- Arcesilaus
- Aenesidemus
- Sextus Empiricus
- Nagarjuna
- Xenophanes
- Antiochus of Ascalon
- Parmenides
- Protagoras
- Plutarch
- Socrates
- Aristocles of Messene
- Blaise Pascal
- Michel de Montaigne
- David Hume
- Favorinus
- Gorgias
- Richard Popkin
- Anaxarchus
- Stephen Batchelor (author)
Related ideas
- Eusebius
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Timon of Phlius
- Princeton University Press
- Buddhist logico-epistemology
- Suspension of judgment
- Philosophy
- Thomas McEvilley
- Two truths doctrine
- Pyrrho
- Agathias
- Cartesian doubt
- Julian (emperor)
- Aenesidemus
- Sextus Empiricus
- Conscience
- Epoché
- Eudaimonia
- Pierre Gassendi
- Philosophical skepticism
- Magi
- Nagarjuna
- Taxila
- Platonic Academy
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