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I am skeptical that I fully understood this book, but I love the way writers of the past just said what they thought...like it or leave it. I did not get what I should have out of this book due to my lack of understanding this particular philosophical perspective - a lesson in and of itself - not to Leggi tutto

In this extremely unlovely book, Sextus Empiricus (c. 200 CE) summarizes the main points of skeptical philosophy following the tradition of the semi-legendary philosopher Pyrrho (c. 300 BCE). Pyrrhic skepticism directs us to question dogmatic or uncertain statements, as one would tend to think of sk Leggi tutto

The object of Pyrrhonian skepticism is ultimately aesthetic, “a standstill of the intellect, owing to which we neither reject nor posit anything. Tranquility [ataraxia—from taratein , to trouble] is freedom from disturbance or calmness of soul” (5). The ‘aim’ of the skeptic here is “tranquility in ma Leggi tutto

الكتاب مع يزيد When you take some honey, it tastes good to you, there is no denying in that. But, is honey truly in its essence sweet? Some are disgusted by the taste of honey and they can argue the opposite (that honey is not sweet) so why bother arguing in the first place when it comes to true natu Leggi tutto

Eleştiri odağına dogmatiklere alarak dogmatik görüşleri kuşkucu yöntemlerle tek tek çürütmek için uğraşan Sextus Empiricus, "Pyrrhonculuğun Esasları / Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism" adlı eserinde hiçbir şey kesin doğru veya yanlış olamayacağını örneklerle okuyucuya sunuyor. Bakış açısının Leggi tutto

In these days when nitwits are willing to get into shouting matches (or to blow people up) in the defense of their moronic and sloppily thought out dogmatic opinions, there’s something refreshing about an ancient philosophy that says, “you probably don’t know what you’re talking about, and you shoul Leggi tutto

The unreasonable manner in which almost every fundamental truth gets denied by such far-fetched theories comes over as extremely pretentious and makes it seem as if denial for the pure sake of denial is the prime goal of the skeptics. Anyways this book was one hell of a pain to read through and cert Leggi tutto