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"By suspending judgment, we find peace of mind." - Pyrrho of Elis (aprox. 360 BC to 270 BC)
Pyrrho traveled with Alexander the Great to India, encountering Eastern thought. He founded Greek Skepticism, arguing that absolute knowledge is impossible and peace comes from withholding opinion.
Source: Sextus Empiricus (compiled via Google Gemini)
#GreatThinkers #philosophy #skepticism #pyrrho #truth #history #mindfulness
As a Librarian it is part of my calling to bring attention to readers books that they may not be aware of, and through the use of professional empathy, in hope they are of use to audiences which may not at first sight consider them. This is one such work. Palmer, Tim, The Primacy of Doubt: From Climate Change to Quantum Physics, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Predict and Understand Our Chaotic World #9780192843593
https://whyweshould.substack.com/p/social-mediation-primary-doubt-and #saturday #pyrrho
https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/2023/03/08/why-i-no-longer-call-it-art/ Aaron Wright's ‘Why I No Longer Call It “Art” ’#rockart #ritualactivity #pyrrho #outcomes
What to do when the Q&A after a talk just gets too annoying:
"And once in Elis during some talks, #Pyrrho was so worn-out by the inquirers, that he stripped and swam across the Alpheus."
The Ten Tropes of Aenesidemus
or
Why You Shouldn’t Believe Anything 🤓
http://aenesidemusoz.nichesite.org/the-ten-tropes-of-aenesidemus/
#DiogenesLaertius on #Pyrrho, or rather #Timon on #epoche — the "withholding of assent"
The appendix to Part I of #Spinoza's Ethics constitutes one of the most concerted arguments against #teleology in nature that I've found before #Darwin.
The other major one I have looked at is dependent origination in #buddhism which I have written about here https://bit.ly/3glD7bD
Do you know any others in #philosophy or elsewhere?
I'm aware I need to look more into #Hume #Bacon #Lucretius and #Pyrrho and I'm currently deep in #Nietzsche
Anyone have a view on Richard Bett vs Christopher Beckwith? They seem to have some tension (reading Beckwith's Greek Buddha and Bett's Cambridge Guide to Ancient Scepticism)
#Pyrrho #Pyrrhonism #Plato #Buddhism #Gorgias #SextusEmpiricus #Parmenides #scepticism #philosophy @philosophy
Anyone have a view on Richard Bett vs Christopher Beckwith? They seem to have some tension (reading Beckwith's Greek Buddha and Bett's Cambridge Guide to Ancient Scepticism)
#Pyrrho #Pyrrhonism #Plato #Buddhism #Gorgias #SextusEmpiricus #Parmenides #scepticism #philosophy @philosophy
#Philosophy : #Nietzsche #Schopenhauer #Spinoza #Pyrrho #Pascal #Montaigne #Lucretius #Elias #Althusser #Jaynes #McGilchrist, and I'm also interested in #Darwin #Epicurus #Zhuangzi #Laozi #Taoism #Buddhism #Helmholtz
I studied #literature : #Thackeray #Tolstoy #GeorgeEliot #Strindberg #Celine #Dostoevsky #Pushkin #Chekhov #Rimbaud #HartCrane #ThomasHardy #DHLawrence
Also love #film : #Bergman #MichaelPowell #Ozu #Mizoguchi #Fellini #Cassavetes #Losey #Wilder #Bresson #Truffaut #Marker