Ancient Greece & Rome · School
Scepticism
Pyrrho and Sextus urged suspending judgement on all claims, finding peace of mind by asserting nothing.
Representative figures · 5
Pyrrho皮浪
Returned from Alexander's expedition to India teaching suspension of judgement about everything as the road to peace of mind.
Cicero西塞罗
Rome's greatest orator, who rendered Greek philosophy into Latin and gave Europe its philosophical vocabulary.
Sextus Empiricus塞克斯都·恩披里柯
The compiler of ancient scepticism, whose works, rediscovered in the Renaissance, set off the sceptical crisis of early modern philosophy.
Michel de Montaigne蒙田
Invented the essay, took 'What do I know?' as his motto, and made himself the subject of a book about humanity.
David Hume休谟
Took empiricism to its limit: causation is habit, the self a bundle of perceptions, reason the slave of the passions. Kant said he woke him from his dogmatic slumber.