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HoP 069 - Beyond Belief - Pyrrho and Skepticism

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Pyro of Ellis - The First Sceptic

Pyro was born in the three sixties b c and died in the two seventies, making him roughly a generation younger than aristotle. He was an admired figure in his home of ellis, the northwest corner of the southern part of mainland greece. Like socrates and diogenes the cynic, he wrote nothing. It's not entirely clear how much of the philosophical stante we associate with pyro was in fact pyro's and how much was invented by tymon.

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