- Lived:
- c. 160–210 CE (very approximate) · somewhere in the Greek-speaking Roman world — Alexandria, Athens, and Rome have all been guessed
- Tradition:
- Pyrrhonian Skepticism — the last, greatest voice of ancient Greek doubt
- The Big Idea:
- For every argument there is an equal opposing argument; so suspend judgment on how things really are — and discover, unexpectedly, that peace of mind follows the suspension.
- In their words:
- "To every argument an equal argument is opposed."
- If you remember one thing:
- We know almost nothing about the man, but his books preserved the entire toolkit of ancient skepticism — and when they were printed in 1562, after more than a thousand years of silence, they detonated under modern philosophy.