Pyrrhonism
Nothing can be known for certain: suspend judgement and find peace
Key ideas
- Every argument can be met by an equal one
- Suspension of judgement (epoché)
- Tranquillity follows from giving up dogma
- The modes of doubt, collected by Sextus Empiricus
Key thinkers
- Pyrrho (founder) — Greek philosopher, founder of Pyrrhonism, 360 BC–270 BC
Meanwhile elsewhere
- Confucianism Asia
- Buddhist philosophy Asia
- Mohism Asia
- Taoism Asia
- Legalism Asia
- Nyaya Asia
- Patristics Africa
- Madhyamaka Asia