person
Pyrrho of Elis
Pyrrho
also: Pyrrhonis, Pyrrho
The founder of Greek skepticism (c. 360-270 BC), who held that nothing can be known and that the wise man suspends judgment, treating all things as indifferent. Cicero lists him among thinkers whose ethics dissolve the doctrine of duty.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §4.43 Pyrrho, of course, most of all
Pyrrho of Elis, founder of Greek skepticism, is here cast as the most extreme of those who leave nothing besides virtue worth desiring. Cicero ranks the ethical errors of Pyrrho, Aristo, and the Stoics by how far each departs from nature.