Definition:

Pyrrho of Elis (c. 360-c. 270 B.C.) traveled to India with Alexander and returned to Greece where he established a new school of Skeptical philosophy based on the idea that nothing is truly knowable.

Pyrrho left no writings of his own, but those who wrote about him describe his writing as more a way of living contently, with self-control, and within the existing laws than a dogmatic doctrine, according to (www2.evansville.edu/ecoleweb/glossary/pyrrho.html) The Ecole Initiative.


Pyrrho's teachings were opposed to those of the Dogmatists, according to IEP.

His countrymen so greatly admired Pyrrho that they gave him the rank of high priest and passed a decree freeing philosophers from taxation (again, according to IEP).

Alternate Spellings: Pyrrhon, Pyrrho of Elea