PHILOS 2P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhonism, Pyrrho
21 Apr 2020
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Overview: introduction, the goal of skepticism, dogma and appearance, the skeptical art, the skeptical modes , life without belief, concluding thoughts. In contemporary philosophy, a skeptic is someone who questions or seeks to undermine knowledge claims: skepticism is you put your beliefs in an assumption (descartes) Pyrrho of ellis (365-275 bc) apparently sought to develop radical skepticism into a whole way of life: not as simple as questioning everything, there is a method. Our primary source for pyrrhonian skepticism is the writings of sextus empiricus (2nd century ad). According to sextus there are three kinds of philosophers: dogmatists: those who believe they have discovered the truth (e. g. the. Aristotelians, stoics, epicureans): make truth claims and they think they know what"s real, academics: those who believe the truth cannot be discovered (e. g. members of the. Skeptical academy): the people in plato academy after plato, truth can"t be discovered, skeptics: those who continue searching (from the greek sketpomai, meaning.
