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	Pyrrho - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pyrrho, along with Anaxarchus, travelled with Alexander the Great on his exploration of the east, and studied in India under the Gymnosophists and under the Magi in Persia.
		Pyrrho's answer was that things are indistiguishable, unmesurable and undecidable and no more this than that, or both this and that and neither this nor that.
		Pyrrho is said to have been so seriously bound to skepticism that it led to his own unfortunate and sudden death around 270 BC According to the legend, he was demonstrating skepticism while blindfolded when his disciples tried to warn him of a dangerous cliff he was headed toward.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pyrrho (900 words)

	Pyrrho
		Pyrrho, a Greek philosopher that lived from around 365 BC-360 BC to around 275 BC-270 BC, is usually credited as being the first skeptic philosopher.
		He traveled with Alexander the Great on his exploration of the east, and came back with his skeptical philosophy, that says apathy[?] (based on the realization that no action can be known to be better than another) is the state with most happiness.
		Ataraxia, ‘freedom from worry’, is familiar to us from later Pyrrhonism; this is said by the later Pyrrhonists to be the result of the suspension of judgement that they claimed to be able to induce.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/py/Pyrrho.html (103 words)

	Pyrrho (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		In numerous anecdotes Pyrrho is shown as unconcerned with adhering to the normal conventions of society; he wanders off for days on end by himself, and he performs tasks that would normally be left to social inferiors, such as housework and even washing a pig.
		It has been suggested that Pyrrho made an exception, in the case of the divine and the good, to his general prohibition on attributing definite natures to things; but it is hard to see the motivation for such a move, and this interpretation has not been generally accepted.
		Pyrrho is reported to have had a special admiration for Democritus (Diogenes Laertius 9.67, citing Pyrrho's associate Philo); Democritus is one of the few philosophers besides Pyrrho himself who seems to escape serious criticism in Timon's Lampoons; and Anaxarchus belonged in the tradition of thinkers stemming from Democritus.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/pyrrho (6597 words)

	Ancient Skepticism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Pyrrho left no writings, and many of the later comments about him seem colored by anachronisms encouraged by his later status as the figurehead for the Pyrrhonian “revival” of the 1st c.
		According to the interpretation most in keeping with later skepticism, Pyrrho holds that things appear with equal force to be and not to be (and to both be and not to be; and to neither be nor not to be).
		The relationship between Pyrrho's equanimity and the equanimity espoused by Sextus and later Pyrrhonians is difficult to judge, though Sextus provides an explanation of the Pyrrhonean state of mind which makes it easier to understand some of the reasons that skeptical conclusions lead to peace of mind.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/skepticism-ancient (9224 words)

	Untitled Document
		Pyrrho strove to suspend all judgements and participate in a state of non-cognition.
		Pyrrho's recovery, as I see it, was his premature return to tranquility: "When the wound was to be treated with disinfectants, surgery, and cautery, it is said that he did not even frown" (Long and Sedley 14, Caizzi 15A, 16,20,part).
		Pyrrho might have had tranquility, but to the extent that those others around him are not tranquil with him is the extent to which his tranquility is incomplete.
	www.vcnet.com /~franz/philosophy/pyrrho.htm (1691 words)

	Pyrrho [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Pyrrho was a Greek philosopher from Elis, and founder of the Greek school of skepticism.
		Epicurus, though no friend to skepticism, admired Pyrrho because he recommended and practiced the kind of self-control that fostered tranquillity; this, for Epicurus, was the end of all physical and moral science.
		Pyrrho was so highly valued by his countrymen that they honored him with the office of chief priest and, out of respect for him, passed a decree by which all philosophers were made immune from taxation.
	www.iep.utm.edu /p/pyrrho.htm (975 words)

	A History of Western Philosophy 1.13
		Pyrrho was born about 365 B.C. at Elis and came to philosophy after an unsuccessful career as a painter.
		Pyrrho has no doubt that honey tastes sweet, but he would not have the temerity to assert that it is sweet.
		And yet, obscure as his own doctrine is, Pyrrho is hailed as their great forerunner by later sceptics, and their deference to him is qualitatively different from their attempts to find the root of their attitude in all previous philosophies.
	www2.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hwp113.htm (5907 words)

	Ancient Skepticism
		Pyrrho's originality is his attempt to use skepticism as a basis for this ideal.
		The positive impression Pyrrho made on the citizens of Elis is reflected in the story that they made him a high priest and on his account passed a law that philosophers should be exempt from taxes (D.L. Pausanias reports a stature erected in his honour (6.24.5).
		Perhaps in reaction to criticism of Pyrrho's severe asceticism (which might be criticized as unrealistic), the later Pyrrhonians are careful to qualify their claims about Pyrrhonian equanimity, clearly stating that it cannot eliminate the trials and tribulations of ordinary life.
	www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/spr1998/entries/skepticism-ancient (10451 words)

	Ancient Greek Skepticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		Alternatively, we may allow Pyrrho to embrace the apparent inconsistency and assert that his claim is itself neither true nor false, but is inarbitrable.
		Pyrrho's tranquility thus begins to look like a kind of paralysis and this is probably what prompted some of the sensational anecdotes.
		This may be either because Pyrrho (or Timon) was disingenuous about what he was up to intellectually, or more charitably because he followed appearances (9.106) without ever committing himself to the truth or falsity of what appeared.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/s/skepanci.htm (11197 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.11.16
		The basic claim is that Pyrrho was far from advocating a sceptical stance as understood by Sextus Empiricus, involving suspension of judgement in the face of undecidable disagreement, but rather that he maintained that reality is inherently indeterminate and hence that no statement about it is true or false.
		Pyrrho's reasoning would then go as follows: "things present themselves to us in various and conflicting ways; so there is no single, fixed way things are; so reality is indeterminate" (117).
		According to Bett, Aenesidemus took up Pyrrho's observation that appearances conflict, naturally enough, but also his invariability condition, according to which a thing is by nature F if it invariably is F, as well as the supplementary assumption that allows the slide from 'appears' to 'is'.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2001/2001-11-16.html (3638 words)

	Peter Suber, "Classical Skepticism"
		Pyrrho lived to see the rise and fall of Alexander the Great, the civil wars in his empire, and the opening of the Eastern world to the West.
		Pyrrho began his intellectual life as a student and disciple of the Stoics, who taught that peace of mind was the highest end of life and that a knowledge of truth was required to attain and maintain it.
		Pyrrho realized that the ignorance he confessed to himself was very different in kind from the ignorance of children, dogs, and stones.
	www.earlham.edu /~peters/writing/skept.htm (15610 words)

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		Pyrrho takes its name from the ancient Greek philosopher who founded the school of Scepticism: Sceptics support investigation and are suspicious of dogmatic, uncheckable utterance.
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	History of Philosophy 15
		The Sceptics agreed with the Stoics and Epicureans in referring philosophy primarily to conduct and the pursuit of happiness, but, instead of laying down theoretical principles as the Stoics and Epicureans had done, they taught that the first step to happiness is to forego all theoretical inquiry and to disclaim all certainty of knowledge.
		Pyrrho of Elis was a contemporary of Aristotle.
		Pyrrho taught orally, and the fact of his having left no writings accounts for the freedom with which writers attribute to him the principles and tenets of his followers.
	www.nd.edu /Departments/Maritain/etext/hop15.htm (943 words)

	Scepticism - Lecture 4
		Pyrrho is reported as having travelled around with him everywhere, including accompanying him on Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia and invasion of India.
		When his fellow-passengers on board a ship were all frightened and alarmed by a storm, Pyrrho remained calm and confident, pointing to a pig in the ship that went on eating, and telling them that such was the unperturbed state in which the wise man should keep himself.
		Pyrrho appears to have embraced a dogmatic view about the nature of the world, namely that the world is intrinsically indifferent, unmeasurable, and inarbitrable, that then lead him to suspend judgement on all more particular claims about the world.
	www.webspawner.com /users/alanbailey/scepticism4.html (1035 words)

	Pyrrho (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2002 Edition)
		Pyrrho, on this interpretation, is issuing a declaration about the nature of things in themselves -- precisely what the later Pyrrhonists who called themselves sceptics were careful to avoid.
		Nevertheless, the epistemological interpretation clearly portrays Pyrrho as a forerunner -- a naive and unsophisticated forerunner, perhaps -- of later Pyrrhonist scepticism, whereas the metaphysical interpretation puts him in a substantially different light.
		Antigonus has transformed a hostile criticism of Pyrrho -- that, if one really were to adopt the attitudes he recommends, one would be unable consistently to live as a sane human being -- into an account of how Pyrrho actually did act; but there is no reason to take this seriously as biography.
	www.science.uva.nl /~seop/archives/fall2002/entries/pyrrho (6385 words)

	Pyrrho - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pyrrho, c.360-270 BC, Greek philosopher, a native of Elis, regarded as the father of skepticism.
		His doctrines were preserved by his disciple, Timon of Phlius, in satires.
		Pyrrho taught that nothing can be known, because the contradictory of every statement can be maintained with equal plausibility.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-pyrrho.html (199 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.10.01
		In chapter 4 ("Pyrrho and Timon: inhuman indifference"), Warren turns to the Pyrrhonists' hero Pyrrho of Elis, who "was not a Pyrrhonist" himself.
		Warren's ruminations on Pyrrho's exhortation "to strip away the human" (DL 9.66) and live like a pig (DL 9.68) are interesting, but I remain skeptical of his general thesis that Pyrrho was not a general skeptic.
		Pyrrho, suggests Warren, may be one of Polystratus' targets here, and Plutarch's Gryllus, in which a pig and Odysseus discuss happiness, can be seen as dramatizing "the distinction between Epicurean 'rational' tranquillity and Pyrrhonian 'instinctive' tranquillity." The chapter then concludes with a discussion of Polystratus' refutation of those, like Pyrrho, who reject moral realism.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-10-01.html (1528 words)

	The Ecole Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pyrrho (c 360- c 270 BCE) left no writings of his own, but we do know a fair amount about his philosophy.
		Through the writings of Diogenes Laertius and Pyrrho's student, Timon of Philus, we discover that Pyrrho's philosophy was more a way of living than a dogmatic doctrine or method of dialectic.
		Pyrrho believed that indifference was the key to tranquility and that tranquility should be the goal of life.
	www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/pyrrho.html (175 words)

	Pyrrho - WCD (Wiki Classical Dictionary) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He argued that we can not fully comprehend nature, do not know for certain whether a statement is true or false, and are unable to build an ethical system on so weak a fundament.
		The result was a conservative political philosophy, because Pyrrho recommended that, even though we had no moral absolutes, we should live by time-honored traditions.
		Pyrrho's world-view is called Skepticism, and may be compared to the postmodernist philosophy of the 1980's.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /wcd/Pyrrho (186 words)

	Diogenes Laertius: Life of Pyrrho, from Lives of the Philosophers, translated by C.D. Yonge
		Besides these disciples, Pyrrho also had Hecateus of Abdera, and Timon the Phliasian, who wrote the Silli, and whom we shall speak of hereafter; and also Nausiphanes, of Teos, who, as some say, was the master of Epianus.
		He also adds that Pyrrho was not the original inventor of Scepticism, and that he had no particular dogma of any kind; and that, consequently, it can only be called Pyrrhonism from some similarity.
		Pyrrho himself has left nothing; but his friends Timon, and Aenesidemus, and Numenius, and Nausiphanes, and others of that class have left books.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/diogenes/dlpyrrho.htm (5525 words)

	Malaspina Great Books
		Pyrrhonism is a system of scepticism,; the founder of which was Pyrrho, a Greek philosopher,; about whom very little is known except that he died in 270 B. The best known of Pyrrho's disciples was Timon of Philius, known as the sillographer.
		Pyrrho's scepticism was so complete and comprehensive that the word Pyrrhonism is sometimes used as a synonym for scepticism,; The scepticism of Pyrrho's school covered three points.
		From this account of the principles of Pyrrhonism,; it is evident that Pyrrho's aim was ethical.
	www.malaspina.org /Pyrrho.htm (593 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Pyrrho
		Pyrrho PYRRHO [Pyrrho], c.360-270 BC, Greek philosopher, a native of Elis, regarded as the father of skepticism.
		Timon of Phlius TIMON OF PHLIUS [Timon of Phlius], c.320-c.230 BC, Greek skeptic philosopher, chief disciple of Pyrrho.
		Timon denied the possibility of certain knowledge and, like his master, taught that the philosopher can achieve peace of mind only by suspension of judgment and indifference to externals.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Pyrrho (245 words)

	My Left Wing :: The Illogic of Pyrrho on Censorship
		Pyrrho and I are involved in a vicious running battle regarding "standards," censorship and caudilloism (I prefer that word to authoritarian because, at the least, it is fun to say and implies a certain amount of charisma).
		However, Pyrrho wants to see (and its one of the goals of SoapBlox eventually) to have a blog to is not run by a person, per se, but controlled through some sort of parliamentary or republican form of blog governance.
		Finaly, on what pyrrho would say, well pyrrho is a ballroom dancer, he likes to pretend to be a man of the people but he has no problems with hiding comments, deleting diaries and banning - as long as the majority agree with him.
	www.myleftwing.com /showDiary.do?diaryId=1171 (7086 words)

	James Warren - Epicurus and Democritean Ethics: An Archaeology of Ataraxia - Reviewed by Tim O'Keefe, University of ...
		Anaxarchus and Pyrrho develop moral anti-realist positions, where values exist only âby conventionâ and not âin truth,â whereas Nausiphanes, the reviled teacher of Epicurus, does not deny the reality of values but reduces ethics to physics, claiming that knowledge of phusiologiaâ”natural scienceâ”is sufficient for knowledge of ethics, politics, and rhetoric.
		To support this, Warren notes that Pyrrho insists on the unreality of moral values particularly strongly and often (for instance at DL 9.61) and that for Pyrrho one gains ataraxia by believing that things are indifferent as far as their value is concerned.
		The later reports that portray Pyrrho as a global skeptic may well be later accretions, but itâs hard to see how to determine this one way or the other, while still having confidence that the reports that point toward a restricted moral skepticism are reliable.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1265 (3085 words)

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