Philosopher
Aenesidemus
Overview
Aenesidemus (Ancient Greek: Αἰνησίδημος or Αἰνεσίδημος) was a 1st-century BC Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher from Knossos who revived the doctrines of Pyrrho and introduced ten skeptical "modes" (tropai) for the suspension of judgment. He broke with the Academic Skepticism that was predominant in his time, synthesizing the teachings of Heraclitus and Timon of Phlius with philosophical skepticism. Although his primary work, the Pyrrhonian Discourses, has been lost, an outline of the work survives from the later Byzantine Empire, and the description of the modes has been preserved by a few ancient sources.
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Philosophers who discussed Aenesidemus
Ideas Aenesidemus discusses
- Hellenistic philosophy
- Philo of Larissa
- Greece
- Timon of Phlius
- Suspension of judgment
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Pyrrhonism
- Western philosophy
- Heraclitus
- Pyrrho
- Immanuel Kant
- Academy
- Byzantine Empire
- Sextus Empiricus
- Middle Platonism
- Epoché
- Stoicism
- Philosophical skepticism
- Philo
- Antiochus of Ascalon
- Academic skepticism
- Skepticism
- Critique of Pure Reason
- Dogma
Place in the tradition
Part of Academic skepticism.