How to be a Pyrrhonist : the practice and significance of Pyrrhonian skepticism / Richard Bett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bett, Richard, 1957- author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pyrrhon, of Elis.

Pyrrhon.

Skepticism.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part I How the Pyrrhonists Present Themselves; Chapter 1 The Pyrrhonist's Dilemma: What to Write If You Have Nothing to Say; I; II; III; IV; Chapter 2 Why Care Whether Skepticism Is Different from Other Philosophies?; I; II; III; IV; Chapter 3 Humor as Philosophical Subversion, Especially in the Skeptics; I Introduction; II Timon of Phlius; III The Skeptical Academy; IV Sextus Empiricus; V Non-Skeptical Philosophies; VI Conclusion; Part II Pyrrhonists at Work: Specific Topics

Chapter 4 The Sign in the Pyrrhonian TraditionI; II; III; IV; V; VI; Chapter 5 Aenesidemus the Anti-Physicist; Chapter 6 The Modes in Sextus: Theory and Practice; I; II; III; Part III Life as a Pyrrhonist; Chapter 7 What Kind of Self Can a Greek Skeptic Have?; Chapter 8 How Ethical Can an Ancient Skeptic Be?; Chapter 9 Living as a Skeptic; Part IV Intersections of Pyrrhonism with Contemporary Thought; Chapter 10 Can an Ancient Greek Skeptic Be Eudaimôn (or Happy)? And What Difference Does the Answer Make to Us?; I; II; III; Chapter 11 On Pyrrhonism, Stances, and Believing What You Want; I; II

Chapter 12 Can We Be Ancient Skeptics?I Outline of the Project; II How to Understand ''Equal Strength''; III Suspension of Judgment Then and Now; IV Skeptical Tranquility, and What Is Left If We Abandon It; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, April 1, 2019).

ISBN:

9781108658157

9781108557603

1108557600

1108658156

Publisher Number:

40029044068

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