Ancient · c. 360–270 BC
Who did Pyrrho influence?
Students and legacy
Founded Pyrrhonian skepticism: suspend judgement on everything and let appearances carry you to calm.
Pyrrho influenced Timon of Phlius. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Pyrrho?
Pyrrho of Elis is credited as the first Greek sceptic philosopher and the founder of Pyrrhonism. He wrote nothing himself, and his teaching reached later generations through followers such as Aenesidemus and Sextus Empiricus.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who did Pyrrho influence?
1 thinker on this map draws directly on Pyrrho.
- Timon of Phlius c. 320–230 BC
Two steps away from Pyrrho
The second generation
- Through Timon of Phlius: Sextus Empiricus
Contemporaries of Pyrrho
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Pyrrho, with no direct line between them.
- Crates of Thebes c. 365–285 BC
- Zhuangzi c. 369–286 BC
- Hipparchia c. 350–280 BC
- Theophrastus c. 371–287 BC
- Mencius c. 372–289 BC
- Epicurus 341–270 BC
- Aristotle 384–322 BC
Pyrrho by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 0
- Direct followers
- 1
- Thinkers upstream
- 0
- Thinkers downstream
- 137
- Wikipedia languages
- 50 — #41 of 54 among ancient philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Pyrrho
- Who influenced Pyrrho?
- No earlier thinker on this map is recorded as a direct influence on Pyrrho.
- Who did Pyrrho influence?
- Timon of Phlius.
- When did Pyrrho live?
- c. 360–270 BC. The map files Pyrrho under the ancient world.
- How rare is the Pyrrho card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Pyrrho in 50 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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