Ancient Philosophy · Hellenistic schools
The Skeptics & Diogenes
Two radical Greek answers to how to live: Diogenes the Cynic, who lived in a jar and mocked convention, and Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus, who suspended judgment to find peace.
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Prereqs: Socrates. Next: The Stoics; Descartes. Sources: Diogenes Laertius, *Lives of Eminent Philosophers*, Book VI and IX; Sextus Empiricus, *Outlines of Pyrrhonism*; Richard Bett, *Pyrrho* (2000).Next: 1. Diogenes the Cynic