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HoP 069 - Beyond Belief - Pyrrho and Skepticism

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Pyro Is a Stoic Sage, but He Has No Beliefs at All.

If pyro is to be anything other than one more example of an indomitable hellenistic wise man, he needs to give us some kind of philosophical rational for the sceptical attitude that yields atoroxia. The report is found in the fourth century a d christian theologian, eusebius,. hardly a promising place to find details about the ideas of a fourth century b c. But beggars can't be choosers. Eusebius is relating an account about pyro preserved by an earlier aristotelian philosopher who in turn was taking his information from pyro's follower, timon. Still, we have some reason to think that the passage

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