Brief biography of Pirron

The main concepts of skepticism were reduced to the demand of abstinence from judgments in reasoning and equanimity in life. Skepticism arose on the basis of ideas that were expressed by previous philosophers about the fluidity of things, phenomena, about the insufficiency of the grounds for choosing one of the contradictory positions. These and similar ideas developed in the teachings of eleatas, sophists, etc., however, it is believed that sophisticism was the immediate source of skepticism.

Pirron was the first thinker to proclaim the principle of "abstinence from judgments" of EPOHE as the main method of philosophy, philosophizing. The subject of philosophy in skepticism is ethical issues. The problems of the previous philosophy related to natural philosophy, cosmology, etc. Philosophers have more questions about how to live in this unstable world, and not about how it happened.

The philosopher believes that philosophy should help in life to fight dangers, free a person from any excitement, and help to overcome difficulties. In this sense, the philosopher becomes not a theoretician, but a sage who can give wise answers to any life problems. According to Pyrron, a philosopher is a person who is striving for happiness, which consists in equanimity and lack of suffering.

In order to achieve this state, it is necessary to answer a number of questions: what are things, how we relate to them, what is the benefit of our attitude to these things. According to Pirron, nothing definite can be said about things: neither that they are beautiful, nor that they are ugly, neither one nor the other. Any statement can be expressed about each thing, even contradictory.

Therefore, the attitude to things can be only one: you should refrain from any categorical judgments about things. But for Pyrron, this does not mean that there is nothing reliable. He believes that the sensual impressions of a particular person cannot cause skepticism. If a person believes that it seems to him bitter or sweet, then it is, but it cannot be concluded that this exists in reality.

Hence the equanimity of the person in which his highest happiness consists. However, the presented way of reasoning and attitude to life does not mean that the philosopher must be inactive, no, he must live the same way as other people in this country.

But he should not consider the lifestyle of a given country true. Skepticism as a philosophical direction made a great contribution to the development of philosophical thought. In this regard, ancient skepticism had a great advantage over subsequent skepticism, as he was deeper. According to Hegel, the ancient skeptics were looking for the truth and their philosophy was directed against rational thinking.

Hegel also emphasized that the assertion of skepticism about the seemingly all existing is subjective idealism, since it, indicating the contradictions in the same subject, emphasizes its objectivity, and this is the characteristic moment of philosophy itself.