Pyrrho
historical figure · 5 works · 11 mentions · 12 anchored passages
in the texts
On Moral Ends
Philosopher who held that virtue alone mattered, denying any difference between health and sickness
For Pyrrho, Aristo, and Erillus have long since been cast aside.
Because these things seemed to Aristo and Pyrrho altogether worth nothing — so that they said there was no difference at all between being in the best health and being most grievously sick — men long ago rightly ceased to argue against them.
'but do you see that the glory of words is common to you with Pyrrho and with Aristo, who level all things?
Tusculan Disputations
Founder of Pyrrhonist skepticism, named as an exception to those who count pain a great evil.
Their chief, both in authority and in antiquity, the Socratic Aristippus, did not hesitate to call pain the highest evil.
for those of Aristo, Pyrrho, Erillus, and certain others have vanished.
Stromata
Founder of Greek Skepticism, pupil of Anaxarchus.
Hearers of Democritus were Protagoras of Abdera and Metrodorus of Chios, whose pupil was Diogenes of Smyrna, whose pupil Anaxarchus, and of him Pyrrho, of whom Nausiphanes.
And just as, if a man attend to Ischomachus, he will make him a husbandman, and Lampis a shipmaster, and Charidemus a general, and Simon a horseman, and Perdix a huckster, and Crobylus a cook, and Archelaus a dancer, and Homer a poet, and Pyrrho a wrangler, and Demosthenes an orator, and Chrysippus a logician, and Aristotle a natural philosopher, and Plato a philosopher;
Lucullus
Philosopher credited with the doctrine that the wise man feels nothing (apatheia).
But Pyrrho held that the wise man does not even feel those things — which is named apatheia (impassivity).
Apologeticum
Founder of Greek Skepticism, listed among those who exhort endurance of pain and death.
Many among you exhort to the endurance of pain and of death: