Ancient Skepticism

ANCIENT SKEPTICISM In the most specific sense, the term “Ancient Skepticism”refers to two movements in ancient philosophy. One movement is Pyrrohonism. This states that Pyrrho of Elis (4th-3rd c. B.C.) was its founder. It was especially prominent during and after the 1st century B.C. The other movement is Academic Skepticism, which covers a skeptical phase in the history of Plato’s Academy (3rd to early 1st c. B.C.) The term “…

…The constant search for something better never ends. The skeptics’ quest for truth is never ending. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Bibliography Burnyeat, Myles & Michael Frede, eds. The Original Sceptics: A Controversy. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Inc., 1998. DeLacy, Phillip. “Ou Mallon and the Antecedents of Ancient Skepticism.” Phronesis 3 (1958). Long, A.A. & D.N. Sedley. The Hellenistic Philosophers. 2 Vols. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Mates, Benson. The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empricus’s Outlines of Pyrrhonism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.