Tag: Pyrrhonism

Pyrrhonism How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism


Free Download Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism (Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion) by Adrian Kuzminski
English | June 19, 2008 | ISBN: 0739125060, 0739125079 | True EPUB/PDF | 170 pages | 1.66/0.8 MB
Pyrrhonism is commonly confused with scepticism in Western philosophy. Unlike sceptics, who believe there are no true beliefs, Pyrrhonists suspend judgment about all beliefs, including the belief that there are no true beliefs. Pyrrhonism was developed by a line of ancient Greek philosophers, from its founder Pyrrho of Elis in the fourth century BCE through Sextus Empiricus in the second century CE. Pyrrhonists offer no view, theory, or knowledge about the world, but recommend instead a practice, a distinct way of life, designed to suspend beliefs and ease suffering.

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The Christianization of Pyrrhonism Scepticism and Faith in Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Shestov


Free Download The Christianization of Pyrrhonism: Scepticism and Faith in Pascal, Kierkegaard, and Shestov By José R. Maia Neto (auth.)
1995 | 158 Pages | ISBN: 9401041032 | PDF | 12 MB
`… this book is an excellent piece of scholarship, one which deserves to be read by anyone interested in the role of Greek philosophy in the development of either Christian or existential thinking.’British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 8:1 (2000)

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