Pyrrho, His Antecedents, and His Legacy

by Richard Bett

Richard Bett presents a ground-breaking study of Pyrrho of Elis, who lived in the late fourth and early third centuries BC and is the supposed originator of Greek scepticism. In the absence of surviving works by Pyrrho, scholars have tended to treat his thought as essentially the same as the long subsequent sceptical tradition which styled itself "Pyrrhonism." Bett argues, on the contrary, that Pyrrho's philosophy was significantly different from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198250657
• ISBN13: 9780198250654
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"