School · 365 BCE–220 CE
Pyrrhonism
Pyrrhonian skeptics cultivated continued investigation, equipollence, suspension of assent, and a life guided by appearances rather than by dogmatic claims about hidden reality.
Shared questions
- How can suspension of assent answer dogmatic conflict while leaving ordinary life and inquiry possible?
Internal disagreements
- Whether Pyrrho began a continuous school and how Sextus's therapeutic arguments relate to earlier skeptical practice.
Key texts
- Outlines of Pyrrhonism — Sextus' handbook sets out the modes and the goal of tranquillity; it is also the main source for Aenesidemus.
- Against the Logicians — Part of Sextus' longer polemic, which assigns the Ten Modes to Aenesidemus by name.