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The author offers this blend of approaches in a lively effort to assess the philosophical and literary options during a period when Pyrrhonist and Academic variants of skepticism both received persuasive articulation, and the literary genre of tragedy was given consummate expression by Shakespeare. 177) Seeking to substantiate this assertion and demonstrate his reasonable nature, he castigates the extreme skepticism of the Pyrrhonists who contend that the sun is not hot nor the snow white. [24] The Pyrrhonist suspended judgement on all issues of knowledge and retired into a state of ataraxia, quietude or unperturbedness since, as Hamlet puts it "there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so" (2. |
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