Richard Bett (The Johns Hopkins University)

How to Be a Pyrrhonist

The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Skepticism

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores what it was like to be a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism, and to what extent anything like it might be feasible today. The book examines the Pyrrhonists' manner of self-presentation, their argumentative procedures as applied to specific topics, and what it meant in practice to live as a Pyrrhonist.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 279
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781108457064
• ISBN-10: 1108457061
• Artikelnr.: 60865560

Autorenporträt

Richard Bett is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University. His translations of works by Sextus Empiricus include Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians (Cambridge, 2005) and Sextus Empiricus: Against the Physicists (Cambridge, 2012), and he is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Scepticism (Cambridge, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. How the Pyrrhonists Present Themselves: 1. The Pyrrhonist's
dilemma: what to write if you have nothing to say; 2. Why care whether
scepticism is different from other philosophies?; 3. Humor as philosophical
subversion, especially in the sceptics; Part II. Pyrrhonists at Work:
Specific Topics: 4. The sign in the Pyrrhonian tradition; 5. Aenesidemus
the anti-physicist; 6. The modes in Sextus: theory and practice; Part III.
Life as a Pyrrhonist: 7. What kind of self can a Greek sceptic have?; 8.
How ethical can an ancient sceptic be?; 9. Living as a sceptic; Part IV.
Intersections of Pyrrhonism with Contemporary Thought: 10. Can an ancient
Greek sceptic be Eudaimôn (or happy)? And what difference does the answer
make to us? 11. On Pyrrhonism, stances, and believing what you want; 12.
Can we be ancient sceptics?