Arkesilāos (English spelling)

Japanese: アルケシラオス - あるけしらおす(英語表記)Arkesilāos
Arkesilāos (English spelling)

An ancient Greek skeptical philosopher. Born in Pitane, Asia Minor. He rejected the metaphysical teachings of Platonic philosophy, left the Old Academy, and founded the New Academy. He set the goal of philosophy as skeptical epochē, but unlike Pyrrho, he understood this not simply as ethics (an attitude of the mind), but as a pure theory, and rather saw it as a legacy of Socrates and Plato. Since there was no standard for distinguishing the truth of perception, he rejected the Stoic concept of grasping as dogmatic, and made "impossibility of grasping" the principle. In real life, he could be called a soft skeptic in that he used "what makes sense" as the standard for action.

[Yamamoto Takashi January 20, 2015]

[References] | Skeptics

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

古代ギリシア懐疑派の哲学者。小アジア、ピタネ出身。プラトン哲学の形而上(けいじじょう)学的教説を排して古アカデメイアを離れ、新アカデメイアを設立した。懐疑論的「判断中止」epochēを哲学の目標と定めたが、ピロン(ピュロン)とは異なり、これを単に倫理(心の態度)としてではなく、純粋な理論と解し、むしろこれをソクラテス、プラトンの遺風とみた。知覚の真偽に判別基準がないことから、ストア学派の把握表象を独断として退け、「把握不可能性」を原理とした。実生活では「理にかなったこと」を行動の基準とした点で、柔らかい懐疑論といえる。

[山本 巍 2015年1月20日]

[参照項目] | 懐疑派

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