Pyrrho & the Nude Philosphers

[Bruce Michael]

Hi Friends


[FONT=&quot]Pyrrho was the founder of scepticism, but are the many "Pyrrho-manics" today, true to his original intentions? When Alexander the Great took in [/FONT][FONT=&quot]India[/FONT][FONT=&quot] as part of his "world discovery tour", he took with him Pyrrho and his teacher Anaxarchus. Whilst on the subcontinent he hobnobbed with the Gymnosophista[/FONT][FONT=&quot], the Naked[/FONT][FONT=&quot] Philosophers. It is speculated that Buddhism influenced his ideas.[/FONT][FONT=&quot]The Elder Brothers have stated that the true etymology for "sceptic"[/FONT][FONT=&quot] is "sceptre". The reason for this is that atop the Maharajah's[/FONT][FONT=&quot] sceptre, sat a shiny sphere, an orb, in which you could view the entire room.
Thus the name was taken to mean a philosophy which gave an "all round view".

Here are the entries for sceptre and sceptic:

Main Entry: scep[/FONT][FONT=&quot]ter[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Pronunciation: 'sep-ter[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Function: noun[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Etymology: Middle English sceptre, from Middle French ceptre, from[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Latin sceptrum, from Greek skEptron staff, scepter, from skEptesthai[/FONT][FONT=&quot]to prop oneself -[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Date: 14th century[/FONT][FONT=&quot]1 : a staff or baton borne by a sovereign as an emblem of authority
2 : royal or imperial authority

Main Entry: skep[/FONT][FONT=&quot]tic Pronunciation: 'skep-tik Function: noun[/FONT][FONT=&quot]Etymology: Latin or Greek; Latin scepticus, from Greek skeptikos,[/FONT][FONT=&quot]from skeptikos thoughtful, from skeptesthai to look, consider -- more
at SPY Date: 1587 1 : an adherent or advocate of skepticism 2 : a
person disposed to skepticism especially regarding religion or
religious principles.


-Br.Bruce[/FONT]

 

[Thomas]

The Elder Brothers have stated that the true etymology for "sceptic" is "sceptre". The reason for this is that atop the Maharajah's sceptre, sat a shiny sphere, an orb, in which you could view the entire room. Thus the name was taken to mean a philosophy which gave an "all round view".

Which, if you think about it, is empirical, as opposed to the Greek philosophical? So one might say that the philosophers have refined the prior concept.

Thomas

 

[Bruce Michael]

Which, if you think about it, is empirical, as opposed to the Greek philosophical? So one might say that the philosophers have refined the prior concept.

Thomas

Hi Thomas,
Some issues always remain philosophical. From one concept we should be able to extract twelve views. If you take a sphere you can cover it with twelve equi-sized spheres.


-Br.Bruce