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Theory of knowledge --- Indian religions --- Pyrrho van Elis
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Early Skepticism and its founder, Pyrrho of Elis, were introduced to the world in the third century BCE by the poet and philosopher Timon of Phlius. This is the first book-length study in English of the fragments of Timon's works. Of his more than 100 titles, four fragments remain of a catalogue elegy, the Indalmoi, and 133 verses of the Silloi, a hexameter parody in three books in which Timon ridicules philosophers of all periods whom he observes on a trip to Hades. Dee L. Clayman reconstructs the books of the Silloi starting from an outline in Diogenes Laertius and the book numbers assigned to a few fragments by their sources. This has not been attempted since Wachsmuth's edition of 1885, and carries his approach further by careful observation of syntactic and contextual clues in the text. Using the Greek text of Lloyd-Jones and Parsons of 1983, all of the extant fragments are translated into English and discussed as literature, rather than as source material for the history of philosophy. Separate chapters demonstrate that the principle Hellenistic poets, Callimachus, Theocritus and Apollonius of Rhodes, were aware of Timon's work specifically, and of Skepticism generally. The book concludes with a definition of "Skeptical aesthetics" that places many of the characteristic features of Hellenistic literature in a skeptical milieu.
Skeptics (Greek philosophy) --- Sceptiques (Philosophie grecque) --- Timon, --- Pyrrhon, --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Timone, --- Τίμων, --- Pirron, --- Pirrone, --- Pyrrho, --- Pyrrōn, --- Tymon, --- Pyrrho of Elis (philosopher). --- Skepticism. --- Timon of Phlius (philosopher).
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Philosophy --- Demosthenes --- Pyrrho van Elis --- Pericles --- Biography: 1-499 --- Greece: persons --- Solon
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Skepticism. --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Agnosticism --- Belief and doubt --- Free thought --- Pyrrhon, --- Pirron, --- Pirrone, --- Pyrrho, --- Pyrrōn, --- Influence.
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Skepticism. --- Pyrrhon, --- Sextus, --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Agnosticism --- Belief and doubt --- Free thought --- Sekst, --- Sesto, --- Sexto, --- Sextos, --- Sekstus, --- Pirron, --- Pirrone, --- Pyrrho, --- Pyrrōn,
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What was it like to be a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism? This important volume brings together for the first time a selection of Richard Bett's essays on ancient Pyrrhonism, allowing readers a better understanding of the key aspects of this school of thought. The volume examines Pyrrhonism's manner of self-presentation, including its methods of writing, its desire to show how special it is, and its use of humor; it considers Pyrrhonism's argumentative procedures regarding specific topics, such as signs, space, or the Modes; and it explores what it meant in practice to live as a Pyrrhonist, including the kind of ethical outlook which Pyrrhonism might allow and, in general, the character of a skeptical life - and how far these might strike us as feasible or desirable. It also shows how Pyrrhonism often raises questions that matter to us today, both in our everyday lives and in our philosophical reflection.
Philosophy, Ancient --- Skepticism --- Pyrrhon, --- Skepticism. --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Philosophie antique --- Scepticisme. --- Theory of knowledge --- History of philosophy --- History of ancient Greece --- Pyrrho van Elis --- Philosophie antique. --- Pyrrhonismus. --- Pyrrhon, - of Elis --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Agnosticism --- Belief and doubt --- Free thought --- Pirron, --- Pirrone, --- Pyrrho, --- Pyrrōn,
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Pyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334-324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha shows how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of Pyrrhonian scepticism in ancient Greece.Christopher I. Beckwith traces the origins of a major tradition in Western philosophy to Gandhara, a country in Central Asia and northwestern India. He systematically examines the teachings and practices of Pyrrho and of Early Buddhism, including those preserved in testimonies by and about Pyrrho, in the report on Indian philosophy two decades later by the Seleucid ambassador Megasthenes, in the first-person edicts by the Indian king Devanampriya Priyadarsi referring to a popular variety of the Dharma in the early third century BC, and in Taoist echoes of Gautama's Dharma in Warring States China. Beckwith demonstrates how the teachings of Pyrrho agree closely with those of the Buddha Sakyamuni, "the Scythian Sage." In the process, he identifies eight distinct philosophical schools in ancient northwestern India and Central Asia, including Early Zoroastrianism, Early Brahmanism, and several forms of Early Buddhism. He then shows the influence that Pyrrho's brand of scepticism had on the evolution of Western thought, first in Antiquity, and later, during the Enlightenment, on the great philosopher and self-proclaimed Pyrrhonian, David Hume.Greek Buddha demonstrates that through Pyrrho, Early Buddhist thought had a major impact on Western philosophy.
Buddhism and philosophy. --- Buddhism --- Buddhism --- Influence. --- History --- Pyrrhon, --- Aristocles passage. --- Buddha Sakyamuni. --- Buddha. --- Buddhism. --- Chinese philosophy. --- David Hume. --- Early Brahmanism. --- Early Buddhism. --- Early Pyrrhonism. --- Early Taoist texts. --- Early Zoroastrianism. --- Jade Yoga Inscription. --- Laotzu. --- Megasthenes. --- Normative Buddhism. --- Problem of Induction. --- Problem of the Criterion. --- Pyrrho of Elis. --- Pyrrho. --- Pyrrhonian scepticism. --- Warring States period. --- Western philosophy. --- ancient Greece. --- epistemology. --- ethical matters. --- pragmata.
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Skeptics (Greek philosophy). --- Sceptici (Griekse filosofie) --- Scepticisme (Griekse filosofie) --- Scepticisme (Philosophie grecque) --- Pyrrhon, --- Skeptics (Greek philosophy) --- Sceptiques (Philosophie grecque) --- Pyrrhon of Elis --- Pirron, --- Pirrone, --- Pyrrho, --- Pyrrōn, --- Philosophy, Ancient
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Ongeloof --- Sceptici (Griekse filosofie) --- Scepticism --- Scepticisme --- Scepticisme (Griekse filosofie) --- Scepticisme (Philosophie grecque) --- Sceptiques (Philosophie grecque) --- Skepticism --- Skeptics (Greek philosophy) --- Unbelief --- Appearance (Philosophy) --- Apparence (Philosophie) --- --Pyrrhon d'Élis, --- Philosophie --- --Pyrrhonisme --- --Pyrrhon, --- Pyrrhon of Elis --- Pyrrhon, --- Pirron, --- Pirrone, --- Pyrrho, --- Pyrrōn, --- Scepticisme. --- Logic --- Time --- Scepticisme (philosophie grecque) --- Logique --- Temps (philosophie) --- Apparence (philosophie) --- Philosophy. --- Pyrrhon --- Pyrrhonisme --- Pyrrhon, - of Elis --- Pyrrhon d'Élis, 365-275 av JC
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