Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism (Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion)

173 Pages·2008·1.88 MB·English

by  Adrian Kuzminski

Pyrrhonism
Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
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Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism,
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Pyrrhonism
How the Ancient Greeks
Reinvented Buddhism
Adrian Kuzminski
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Pyrrhonism : how the ancient Greeks reinvented Buddhism /
Adrian Kuzminski.
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Contents
Preface ix
Foreword xiii
C. W. Huntington, Jr.
1 Why Pyrrhonism is Not Scepticism 1
2 Pyrrhonism and Buddhism 35
3 The Evident and the Nonevident 71
4 Modern Pyrrhonism 113
Bibliography 145
Index 149
About the Author 155
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