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Book Review: "Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism", by Adrian Kuzminski |
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| 著者 |
Reddoch, M. Jason
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| 掲載誌 |
Philosophy East and West
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| 巻号 | v.60 n.3 |
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| 出版年月日 | 2010.07 |
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| ページ | 424 - 427 |
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| 出版者 | University of Hawaii Press |
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| 出版サイト |
https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/
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| 出版地 | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
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| 資料の種類 | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
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| 言語 | 英文=English |
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| キーワード | Buddhism |
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| 抄録 | Pyrrhonism: How the Ancient Greeks Reinvented Buddhism, by Adrian Kuzminski, is a short monograph of four chapters in which the author argues that Pyrrho of Elis (ca. 365–270 b.c.e.) developed his form of skepticism after coming into contact with Indian philosophers on his journey with Alexander the Great. Although the subtitle suggests that the primary focus of the study will be to develop this argument for historical diffusion, the book is more of an apology for Pyrrhonism, which Kuzminski thinks can be better understood by emphasizing its striking similarities with Buddhism. While presenting a plausible scenario for historical diffusion, he emphasizes parallels specifically with the Mādhyamaka school of Mahāyāna Buddhism in order to provide a better understanding of Pyrrhonism's meaning, purpose, and potential. Kuzminski is persuasive in his use of Buddhism to clarify Pyrrhonism and to correct previous misinterpretations of Pyrrhonism by Western philosophers, but his treatment of historical and philological issues is often neither thorough nor totally persuasive. In what follows, I will present a summary of the book followed by some critical remarks. Kuzminski's focus is on Pyrrhonism, but I will provide more discussion of his treatment of its similarities and contact with Buddhism. In his first chapter, "Why Pyrrhonism is Not Scepticism," Kuzminski argues that in contrast to the dogmatic and nihilist approach of the Academic skeptics who held that truth cannot be known, Pyrrhonism is best understood as a nondogmatic therapeutic philosophy that promoted suspension of judgment. This distinction is supported by the account of Pyrrhonism by Sextus Empiricus (fl. second century c.e.). In order to stress Pyrrhonism's practical and soteriological goals, Kuzminski contrasts ancient accounts of Pyrrho, who is described as living a tranquil and... |
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| ISSN | 00318221 (P); 15291898 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1353/pew.0.0110 |
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| ヒット数 | 1436 |
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| 作成日 | 2010.08.11 |
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| 更新日期 | 2019.05.17 |
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