PYRRHO

1. PYRRHO
c. 360-270 BCE

2.  Pyrrho of Elis (c. 360 – 270 BCE), a
Greek philosopher of classical antiquity, is
credited as being the first Sceptic
philosopher and the inspiration for the
school known as Pyrrhonism, founded by
Aenesidemus in the 1st century BC.

3.  Pyrrho was known as the first
sceptical philosopher because he
believed that humans can never
know the truth; instead, they can
only grasp the appearance of
things.

4.  Pyrrho rejected education and regarded
knowledge as impossible because
everything is un-measurable.
 He believed that people were incapable
of telling the truth. There are no known
writings of Pyrrho, but he inspired a
school of philosophy called Pyrrhonism
or scepticism that taught happiness could
achieved by rejecting the search for
knowledge.

5.  He took part in the Indian expedition of
Alexander the Great, and met with
philosophers of the Indus region. He
founded a new school in which he taught
fallibilism, namely that every object of
human knowledge involves uncertainty .

6.  The impossibility of knowledge, even in regard to
our own ignorance or doubt, should induce the wise
person to withdraw into themself, avoiding the
stress and emotion which belong to the contest of
vain imaginings .

7.  This theory of the impossibility of knowledge is the
first and the most thorough exposition of non-
cognitivism in the history of Western thought. Its
ethical implications may be compared with the ideal
tranquillity of the Stoics and the Epicureans.

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