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Aenesidemus

Aenesidemus (Ancient Greek: Αἰνησίδημος or Αἰνεσίδημος) was a 1st-century BC Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher from Knossos who revived the doctrines of Pyrrho and introduced ten skeptical "modes" (tropai) for the suspension of judgment. He broke with the Academic Skepticism that was predominant in his time, synthesizing the teachings of Heraclitus and Timon…

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Born
c. 1st century BC Knossos
Era
Hellenistic philosophy
Main interests
Skepticism
Notable ideas
The ten modes of Aenesidemus
Region
Western philosophy
School
Pyrrhonism

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related to Modern sources · 33
Aenesidemus → Ancient Scepticism, April, Black, Burnet, Cambridge University Press, Chisholm, Early Greek Philosophy, Encyclopædia Britannica, February, Hankinson, Hugh, In Bett, ISBN, January, John, London, Long, Ltd, Paul, Philosophical Commentary
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Aenesidemus → Academy, Antiochus, Ascalon's Middle Platonist, Based, Cicero, Diogenes, Diogenes Laërtius, Furthermore, Heraclides, Larissa, Lucius Aelius Tubero, Myriobiblion, Peripatetic, Philo, Philo's, Phlius, Photius, Pyrrho, Pyrrhonian Discourses, Pyrrhonism
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Aenesidemus → Alexandria, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, Hermias, Immanuel Kant's Critique, In, Kantianism, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, On Drunkenness, Philo, Pure Reason, The
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Aenesidemus → Academy, Aenesidemus' Appropriation, Brill, Caizzi, Fernanda Decleva, Heraclitus, Leiden, Roberto, The Classical Quarterly, The Sceptical Road
related to Heraclitean view · 4
Aenesidemus → According, Heraclitus, John Burnet, Sextus Empiricus
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Aenesidemus → Good, Happiness, Having, Pleasure
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Aenesidemus → c. 1st century BC Knossos
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