Pyrrhonism

The ancient Greek philosophy based on Buddhism. #SextusEmpiricus

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@UranicMelody @ulfcytel Try this https://t.co/svKaFwraIT

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@JosefPekarfan @homolumen Sextus Empiricus gives arguments against other pagan philosophers. This was useful for the monks, which is why his works were preserved.

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@Johnny4ppleweed It was the Academic Skeptics who claimed that knowledge was impossible, not the Pyrrhonists.

The Pyrrhonists make some knowlege claims.

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https://t.co/cKjUiPk9za

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This is not the reality your ego is looking for.

Link in the comments.

[Jason Blakely @jasonwblakely]

Augustine's famous attack on Stoic philosophy is so blistering it's almost funny. He thinks Stoicism is always a bluff, a cope—not a form of life that embodied, finite, emotionally attuned creatures can actually live out.

A characteristic diatribe from the City of God:

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@Mozambiqueguy @Avnk90 https://t.co/SDV0XRT30I

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@limroul1111 You still can be!

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@SpeedWatkins @papistspike You have confused Academic Skepticism with Pyrrhonism. It is the Academics who make that claim. The Pyrrhonists reject it.

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@limitandmind Nice strawman you have there.

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@SpeedWatkins @papistspike Pyrrhonists claim to know plenty of things: empirical things.

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@GrecoPhilistine @SuperheroFreak @DavidBanicaRO The Buddhist scholars disagree on details with Beckwith about Buddhist influences on Pyrrho, but there's not much rejection of the basic thesis.

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This is a perfect example of the fatal flaw of Stoicism. Stoicism leads people to think that they can know good and evil with certainty.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Ryan was once a friend. He’s been out sailing on my boat. I helped him sketch the initial pivot to writing about the Stoics.

Sadly, this isn’t his most shocking video. That distinction belongs to the ones featuring his kids at Trump rallies.

He’s a smart guy and a deep thinker, but Trump has him tied up in knots.

What made him popular is the unique, insightful advice he gives. That earned him a roster of “celebrity” friends, mostly authors, who reciprocated with network connections and advice of their own.

His closest friend is @RobertGreene, who is genuinely a great person. Ryan worked as his assistant, and Robert introduced us.

Both are voracious readers.

Problem one: Robert is a dork (the best kind), while Ryan is the kind of guy everyone in high school liked.

Put another way: Ryan is socially motivated. Robert is introspective and observant.

Problem two: Robert had brutal experiences in the workforce and wrote The 48 Laws of Power, in essence, to understand why he kept getting screwed by alpha males.

He wants to help people understand the world around them. He isn’t tilting at windmills. He’s offering insight grounded in historical context.

Ryan wants to actually improve the world itself. I genuinely believe his motives are good, but unlike the actual Stoics, he lived a normal life that turned into a very charmed one.

Ryan’s social radar is phenomenal. He reads trends and knows how to ride them in a modern context.

But I don’t think this is an act. He genuinely seems to believe Trump is a monster.

How did he arrive at that false conclusion?

I don’t know for sure, but we share many mutual friends, and I can trace where our thinking began to diverge.

What made me reject the popular “Trump is bad” narrative in our old friend group is the Bronx. My childhood there always lingers in the background.

I was (briefly) an EMT in the Bronx. My mother was a visiting nurse in the projects. My father was a firefighter when the Bronx was burning. I’ve thought hard about the liberal policies, and a few conservative ones, that produced the war zone surrounding me.

I’ve spent decades working alongside people with hard jobs: soldiers, first responders, offshore oil drillers, merchant mariners. I understand why Trump’s base loves him. I understand why they agree with his policies.

Even that wasn’t enough. After January 6th, I had to reevaluate my feelings toward Trump.

I hated the Democrats’ slide toward Marxism. But could I keep supporting Trump after so many first-term failures?

So I read roughly a dozen biographies, not just about Trump, but by his friends and associates. People who loved him. People who hated him.

A truer sense of the man began to emerge. Not all “good,” but realistic, intelligent, and possessed of a deep love for Americans of every type.

What makes Ryan so smart is the sheer historical context he carries from a lifetime of reading. He can plug real, useful historical lessons into almost any problem.

But you absolutely must understand the full context of a problem in order to fix it. And like the actual Stoics, you have to index the good you want to do against the first-hand disasters you have actually seen.

Ryan genuinely wants to fix America, but he is unbalanced. His historical context runs deep. His modern context is superficial.

Here he’s trying to solve a problem he has incorrectly indexed as “Trump is bad,” without firsthand exposure to the sufferings of real Americans who have lived through real danger and tragedy.

He’s plugging that deep historical context into a superficial understanding of the problems Trump is actually trying to solve.

The result? Frustration, anger and rhetorical bombardment that’s almost the polar opposite of stoicism.

[john smith @egregorosi]

@Orthon_Spaceman @W4Unity It was pyrrhonism, not platonism, that kickstarted the Renaissance and Enlightenment.

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@Saatvata @BlueGreenblue3 @Hezbolsonaro Buddhism did become dominant in Greek Bactria.

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@JackGMitchell @mtracey

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A 2,000 year old still-raging debate about the education system
https://t.co/mitTTVEjcs

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@denizthecurious Try my book "Pyrrho's Way" for an easier to comprehend introduction to Pyrrhonism.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

A chief cause of delusion is the need for certainty. Just as the thirst for water may drive a desert wanderer to chase mirages, so the thirst for answers makes us rush into poorly justified beliefs. To avoid being duped, become comfortable with uncertainty.