Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?

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Machuca, Diego Emanuel
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2019
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My purpose in this paper is to examine whether Pyrrhonian scepticism, as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus?s extant works, has practical or epistemic value. More precisely, I would like to consider whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension of judgment (epochē) and undisturbedness (ataraxia) can be deemed to be of practical or epistemic value. By ?practical? value I mean both moral value and prudential value. Moral value refers to moral rightness and wrongness; prudential value to personal or social well-being. Hence, when I ask whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension and undisturbedness have practical value, I mean whether they make us behave in a manner that is morally right or wrong, and whether they allow us to attain those goals that would make it possible to live well. As for ?epistemic? value, it refers basically to the values of attaining truth and avoiding error. Hence, when I ask whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension has epistemic value, I mean whether it allows us to attain truth and avoid error. My main focus will be the practical value of both suspension and undisturbedness because this is the value on which ancient philosophy scholars critical of Pyrrhonism have laid emphasis. The reason for examining the epistemic value of suspension is that doing so will enable a fuller assessment of the significance of Pyrrhonism as a kind of philosophy, which is my primary concern.
Fil: Machuca, Diego Emanuel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
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PYRRHONISM
PRACTICAL VALUE
EPISTEMIC VALUE
UNDISTURBEDNESS
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spelling Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?Machuca, Diego EmanuelPYRRHONISMPRACTICAL VALUEEPISTEMIC VALUEUNDISTURBEDNESShttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6My purpose in this paper is to examine whether Pyrrhonian scepticism, as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus?s extant works, has practical or epistemic value. More precisely, I would like to consider whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension of judgment (epochē) and undisturbedness (ataraxia) can be deemed to be of practical or epistemic value. By ?practical? value I mean both moral value and prudential value. Moral value refers to moral rightness and wrongness; prudential value to personal or social well-being. Hence, when I ask whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension and undisturbedness have practical value, I mean whether they make us behave in a manner that is morally right or wrong, and whether they allow us to attain those goals that would make it possible to live well. As for ?epistemic? value, it refers basically to the values of attaining truth and avoiding error. Hence, when I ask whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension has epistemic value, I mean whether it allows us to attain truth and avoid error. My main focus will be the practical value of both suspension and undisturbedness because this is the value on which ancient philosophy scholars critical of Pyrrhonism have laid emphasis. The reason for examining the epistemic value of suspension is that doing so will enable a fuller assessment of the significance of Pyrrhonism as a kind of philosophy, which is my primary concern.Fil: Machuca, Diego Emanuel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaDe GruyterVeltri, GiuseppeHaliva, RacheliSchmid, StephanSpinelli, Emidio2019info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/bookParthttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_3248info:ar-repo/semantics/parteDeLibroapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/118112Machuca, Diego Emanuel; Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?; De Gruyter; 6; 2019; 43-66978-3-11-059104-0CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/537014info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-09-03T10:01:47Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/118112instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-09-03 10:01:47.849CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?
title Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?
spellingShingle Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?
Machuca, Diego Emanuel
PYRRHONISM
PRACTICAL VALUE
EPISTEMIC VALUE
UNDISTURBEDNESS
title_short Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?
title_full Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?
title_fullStr Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?
title_full_unstemmed Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?
title_sort Does Pyrrhonism Have Practical or Epistemic Value?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Machuca, Diego Emanuel
author Machuca, Diego Emanuel
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dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Veltri, Giuseppe
Haliva, Racheli
Schmid, Stephan
Spinelli, Emidio
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv PYRRHONISM
PRACTICAL VALUE
EPISTEMIC VALUE
UNDISTURBEDNESS
topic PYRRHONISM
PRACTICAL VALUE
EPISTEMIC VALUE
UNDISTURBEDNESS
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.3
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv My purpose in this paper is to examine whether Pyrrhonian scepticism, as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus?s extant works, has practical or epistemic value. More precisely, I would like to consider whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension of judgment (epochē) and undisturbedness (ataraxia) can be deemed to be of practical or epistemic value. By ?practical? value I mean both moral value and prudential value. Moral value refers to moral rightness and wrongness; prudential value to personal or social well-being. Hence, when I ask whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension and undisturbedness have practical value, I mean whether they make us behave in a manner that is morally right or wrong, and whether they allow us to attain those goals that would make it possible to live well. As for ?epistemic? value, it refers basically to the values of attaining truth and avoiding error. Hence, when I ask whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension has epistemic value, I mean whether it allows us to attain truth and avoid error. My main focus will be the practical value of both suspension and undisturbedness because this is the value on which ancient philosophy scholars critical of Pyrrhonism have laid emphasis. The reason for examining the epistemic value of suspension is that doing so will enable a fuller assessment of the significance of Pyrrhonism as a kind of philosophy, which is my primary concern.
Fil: Machuca, Diego Emanuel. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina
description My purpose in this paper is to examine whether Pyrrhonian scepticism, as this stance is described in Sextus Empiricus?s extant works, has practical or epistemic value. More precisely, I would like to consider whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension of judgment (epochē) and undisturbedness (ataraxia) can be deemed to be of practical or epistemic value. By ?practical? value I mean both moral value and prudential value. Moral value refers to moral rightness and wrongness; prudential value to personal or social well-being. Hence, when I ask whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension and undisturbedness have practical value, I mean whether they make us behave in a manner that is morally right or wrong, and whether they allow us to attain those goals that would make it possible to live well. As for ?epistemic? value, it refers basically to the values of attaining truth and avoiding error. Hence, when I ask whether the Pyrrhonist?s suspension has epistemic value, I mean whether it allows us to attain truth and avoid error. My main focus will be the practical value of both suspension and undisturbedness because this is the value on which ancient philosophy scholars critical of Pyrrhonism have laid emphasis. The reason for examining the epistemic value of suspension is that doing so will enable a fuller assessment of the significance of Pyrrhonism as a kind of philosophy, which is my primary concern.
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