Beschreibung:
Originally published in 1968. There is a much neglected and more radical form of scepticism, Pyrrhonism, which neither denies nor accepts the possibility of knowledge and is to be regarded not as a philosophical position so much as the expression of a philosophical way of life. Professor Naess argues that, given a sympathetic interpretation, Sextus Empiricus's outline of Pyrrhonian scepticism provides the essentials of a genuine and rational sceptical point of view.
Foreword; Chapter I Pyrrho's Scepticism According to Sextus Empiricus; Chapter II The Psychological Possibility of Scepticism; Chapter III Scepticism and Positive Mental Health; Chapter IV Conceptual Complementarity of Evidence and Truth Requirements; Chapter V Dialectics of Modern Epistemological Scepticism;