"to the more recent skeptics"; Diogenes Laërtius attributes them to Agrippa. The five modes of Agrippa (also known as the five tropes of Agrippa) are:...

(astronomer), Greek astronomer from the late 1st century Agrippa the Skeptic, Skeptic philosopher at the end of the 1st century Agrippa Menenius Lanatus, Roman consul...

only "to the more recent skeptics" and it is by Diogenes Laërtius that we attribute them to Agrippa. The five tropes of Agrippa are: Dissent – The uncertainty...

through the use of the Ten Modes of Aenesidemus, the Five Modes of Agrippa, and the Pyrrhonist maxims. Pyrrhonism is mostly known today through the writings...

government about an ongoing war then the person doubts that these claims are accurate. In such cases, skeptics normally recommend not disbelief but suspension...

the state or condition of 'good spirit', and which is commonly translated as 'happiness' or 'welfare'. In the works of Aristotle, eudaimonia was the term...

Tropes of Agrippa. The Pyrrhonist philosopher Sextus Empiricus described the problem of circular reasoning as "the reciprocal trope": The reciprocal...

as Agrippa's trilemma or the Agrippan trilemma after a similar argument reported by Sextus Empiricus, which was attributed to Agrippa the Skeptic by Diogenes...

evidence Pseudoskepticism – Philosophical position that appears to be skeptic but is actually dogmatic Standard social science model – Alleged model...

epistemological issues in their work. Aenesidemus Augustine of Hippo Agrippa the Skeptic Aristotle Democritus Epicurus Heraclitus Mencius Mozi Nausiphanes...

Philo of Larissa. The most extensive ancient source of information about Academic skepticism is Academica, written by the Academic skeptic philosopher Cicero...

effort to dispute the fact that he did not believe in the Athenian gods. Against this argument stands the fact that many skeptics and atheist philosophers...

review the things about which we need, from the outset, to be puzzled" (995a24). Book Beta of the Metaphysics is a list of the aporiai that preoccupy the rest...

Philosophical skeptics are often classified into two general categories: Those who deny all possibility of knowledge, and those who advocate for the suspension...

Ancient Rome. The Stoics believed that the practice of virtue is enough to achieve eudaimonia: a well-lived life. The Stoics identified the path to achieving...

Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and...

inquiries. After the middle of the 3rd century BC, the school fell into decline, and it was not until the Roman Empire that there was a revival. The term peripatetic...

Cornelius Agrippa's popular and influential three-volume treatise De Occulta Philosophia cites Pythagoras as a "religious magi" and advances the idea that...

the Methodic school. As a skeptic, Sextus Empiricus raised concerns which applied to all types of knowledge. He doubted the validity of induction long...

Since antiquity, Heraclitus has been labeled an arrogant misanthrope. The skeptic Timon of Phlius called Heraclitus a "mob-abuser" (ochloloidoros). Heraclitus...

this respect appears as one of the tropes in the Five Modes of Agrippa, pointing to the uncertainty demonstrated by the differences of opinions among philosophers...

Cyprus. He was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy, which he taught in Athens from about 300 BC. Based on the moral ideas of the Cynics, Stoicism...

French and published in the Kingdom of France. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately...

Hierapolis, Phrygia. The name his parents gave him is unknown. The word epíktētos (ἐπίκτητος) in Greek simply means "gained" or "acquired"; the Greek philosopher...

is the goddess of justice and the spirit of moral order and fair judgement as a transcendent universal ideal or based on immemorial custom, in the sense...

sect, said; The reason was plain, for that cocks may be made capons, but capons could never be made cocks. This echoed what the Academic skeptic philosopher...

identified the good with the monad (which would give rise to the Neoplatonic concept of "the One"), the source of the duality of the infinite and the measured...

Platonism is the philosophy of Plato and philosophical systems closely derived from it, though contemporary Platonists do not necessarily accept all doctrines...

one of the Seven Sages, founding figures of Ancient Greece. Many regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition, breaking from the prior use...

The Eleatics were a group of pre-Socratic philosophers and school of thought in the 5th century BC centered around the ancient Greek colony of Elea (Ancient...