Stoic Six Pack 4: The Sceptics

by Sextus Empiricus, Diogenes Laërtius, Mary Mills Patrick

Book Overview

"The truth is hypothetical."

Scepticism (or skepticism), the belief that requires all information to be well supported by evidence, originated in the Skeptikoi, a first century BC Greek school who "asserted nothing." The school was founded by Aenesidemus; our main source of the school's teachings is Sextus Empiricus and the leader of the Sceptics was Pyrrho of Elis (365-275 BC) who had traveled to India and studied with the gymnosophists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514895439
• ISBN13: 9781514895436
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"