How to Keep an Open Mind (eBook)

An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic

Sextus Empiricus (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21536-5 (ISBN)

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How ancient skepticism can help you attain tranquility by learning to suspend judgmentAlong with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How to Keep an Open Mind provides an unmatched introduction to skepticism by presenting a fresh, modern translation of key passages from the writings of Sextus Empiricus, the only Greek skeptic whose works have survived.While content in daily life to go along with things as they appear to be, Sextus advocated-and provided a set of techniques to achieve-a radical suspension of judgment about the way things really are, believing that such nonjudging can be useful for challenging the unfounded dogmatism of others and may help one achieve a state of calm and tranquility. In an introduction, Richard Bett makes the case that the most important lesson we can draw from Sextus's brand of skepticism today may be an ability to see what can be said on the other side of any issue, leading to a greater open-mindedness.Complete with the original Greek on facing pages, How to Keep an Open Mind offers a compelling antidote to the closed-minded dogmatism of today's polarized world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.4.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Reihe/Serie: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
• Übersetzer: Richard Bett
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Abbreviation • adultery • Adversus Mathematicos • against • Alexander the Great • Ambiguity • Anaxagoras • Aristippus of Cyrene • ataraxia • atomic theory • Belief • Bett • Binge Drinking • Buddhism • Cambridge University Press • Carneades • Chrysippus • Cicero • Clitomachus (philosopher) • Concept • Conceptions of God • Copyright • critique • Cross-Reference • Cynicism (philosophy) • Cyrenaics • Deduction • Deductive Reasoning • deed • Diogenes of Sinope • direct experience • Dogma • Edition (book) • editorial • Elis • Empiricism • Epicureanism • epicurus • Epistemology • ethicists • ethics • Explanation • fanaticism • freedom of speech • Glossary • Greek Philosophy • Horace • how to stop judging • Humour • hypothesis • impiety • India • Induction • inference • infinite regress • Instance (computer science) • Intellectual Property • Jennifer Lackey • Johns Hopkins University • Joke • Logicians • Manuscript • Metaphor • Michael Walzer • modes • Natural science • negative dogmatism • non assertion • non judging • of education • Open-mindedness • Oxford University Press • Peripatetic school • Philosopher • Philosophical movement • Philosophy • philosophy of science • Phrase • Phrases • Physical Fitness • Physicists • Physiognomy • Platonism • Plural • practical philosophy • Princeton University Press • public philosophy • pyrrho • Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes • Pyrrhonism • Pyrrhonist • Quantity • Reality • reason • Religion • Republic (Plato) • rhetoric • school of thought • Self Help • Sentence (linguistics) • Sextus Empiricus • Sextus (praenomen) • skepticism • Slavery • Socrates • Stoicism • Suetonius • Suggestion • Suspension of Judgment • syllogism • Symptom • Terminology • the ancient wisdom • Theorem • theory • The Physicists • The Stoic • Thought • Truth • understanding skepticism • Universality (philosophy) • Usage • Value judgment • vocabulary • what did the skeptics believe • Writing • zeno of citium
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21536-7 / 0691215367
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21536-5 / 9780691215365