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How to Be a Pyrrhonist - Richard Bett

How to Be a Pyrrhonist

The Practice and Significance of Pyrrhonian Skepticism

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Buch | Softcover
279 Seiten
2021
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-45706-4 (ISBN)
CHF 54,10 inkl. MwSt
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.
What was it like to be a practitioner of Pyrrhonist skepticism? This important volume brings together for the first time a selection of Richard Bett's essays on ancient Pyrrhonism, allowing readers a better understanding of the key aspects of this school of thought. The volume examines Pyrrhonism's manner of self-presentation, including its methods of writing, its desire to show how special it is, and its use of humor; it considers Pyrrhonism's argumentative procedures regarding specific topics, such as signs, space, or the Modes; and it explores what it meant in practice to live as a Pyrrhonist, including the kind of ethical outlook which Pyrrhonism might allow and, in general, the character of a skeptical life - and how far these might strike us as feasible or desirable. It also shows how Pyrrhonism often raises questions that matter to us today, both in our everyday lives and in our philosophical reflection.

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).

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?

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 151 x 228 mm
Gewicht 414 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10 1-108-45706-1 / 1108457061
ISBN-13 978-1-108-45706-4 / 9781108457064
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