Pyrrho the Skeptic

Pyrrho the Skeptic
Glossary entry on Pyrrho of Elea.

Pyrrho (c. 360-c.270 BCE.)
From IEP, Pyrrho, the founder of the Greek school of skepticism, studied the writings of Democritus, became a disciple of the son of Stilpo, and later a disciple of Anaxarchus. Pyrrho took part in the Indian expedition of Alexander the Great and met with philosophers of the Indus region. Pyrrho founded a new school in which he taught that every object of human knowledge involves uncertainty.

Pyrrho
From the Ecole Glossary, an account of Pyrrho's philosophy based on the writings of Diogenes Laertius and Timon of Philus. The philosophy of Pyrrho was more a way of living than a dogmatic doctrine or method of dialectic. Pyrrho believed indifference was the key to tranquility and the goal of life. Man should live in the corporeal world, without attempting to possess objective truth through it.

Timon (fl. 279 BCE.)
From IEP, the philosophy and life of Timon, a disciple of Pyrrho and philosopher of the sect of the Skeptics, who flourished in the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus, from about 279 B.C.