Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism

The book is organized into four chapters. Chapter 1, “Why Pyrrhonism is Not Scepticism,” distinguishes Pyrrhonism from Academic scepticism and presents it as a way of life rather than a negative doctrine. Chapter 2, “Pyrrhonism and Buddhism,” compares Pyrrhonian suspension of judgment with Buddhist and especially Madhyamaka approaches to nonattachment, emptiness, and liberation from suffering. Chapter 3, “The Evident and the Nonevident,” analyzes Pyrrhonian epistemology, focusing on appearances, direct experience, and the limits of belief. Chapter 4, “Modern Pyrrhonism,” examines later resonances of Pyrrhonian insight, especially in modern philosophy and Wittgensteinian approaches.