The Partially Examined Life (Citizens): (Protected Content)
On “Outlines of Pyrrhonism” from 200 C.E. Can you live while suspending judgment about all non-everyday matters? WIth guest Jessica Berry. Are our beliefs warranted? Skeptics following in the footsteps of Pyrrho (in ca. 300 BCE, but didn’t leave us any writings, so Sextus, centuries later, has to fill us in) thought that for any argument someone puts forward (at least about the nature of reality), you can come up with a plausible counter-argument, and that after you’ve done this enough, you achieve a relaxed state where you you’re satisfied in not being able to decide. Learn more.
End song: “Point of Confusion” by Mark Lint.
