Bett, Richard. Pyrrho: His Antecedents and His Legacy.

The Review of Metaphysics | December 1, 2001| | Copyright

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. xi + 262 pp. Cloth, $60.00 -- An important addition to the study of ancient skepticism, this book argues that there were three schools of thought associated with the name of Pyrrho in antiquity, and that although they are distinct from one another on crucial philosophical points they are similar enough to be linked genealogically. First comes Pyrrho himself in the fourth and third centuries B.C.E., who took the metaphysical position that "reality is inherently indeterminate" (p. 39) and therefore chose a way of life characterized by ...

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