Pyrrhonism
Subtitle: how the ancient Greeks reinvented Buddhism
By: Adrian Kuzminski.
Series: Studies in comparative philosophy and religion
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780739125069
Subjects: Pyrrhon, -- of Elis -- Influence; Buddhism
Description: "Adrian Kuzminski examines Pyrrhonism in terms of its striking similarity to some Eastern nondogmatic soteriological traditions - particularly Madhyamaka Buddhism. He argues that its origin can plausibly be traced to the contacts between Pyrrho and the sages he encountered in India, where he traveled with Alexander the Great. Although Pyrrhonism has not been practiced in the West since ancient times, its insights have occasionally been independently recovered, most recently in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Kuzminski shows that Pyrrhonism remains relevant, perhaps more than ever, as an antidote to today's cultures of belief."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreward by / C.W Huntington, Jr.; title: Why Pyrrhonism is not scepticism; title: Pyrrhonism and Buddhism; title: The evident and the non-evident; title: Modern Pyrrhonism.