Pyrrho (about 360 BC - 270 BC). Ancient Greek skeptical philosopher, founder of skepticism

Pyrrho was born in 360 BC. He studied the atomistic philosophy of Democritus in his early years. Later he joined Alexander's army and fought in the Eastern Expedition. He arrived in India, Persia and other countries and was influenced by Indian culture such as Buddhist thought. Pyrrho's life experience was very rich and well-informed. In addition, he was familiar with many philosophical doctrines, which gradually formed his skepticism and founded the school of skepticism.

Pyrrho's skepticism has one most important idea: not making any decisions, suspending judgment.

Don’t judge anything, whether a thing is good or bad or a person is good or bad. In short, as long as you have thoughts about judging things, you must suspend them and refrain from making subjective judgments. Only by adopting this attitude can one achieve a kind of peace of soul.

People’s distress is caused by falling into decision-making too easily. People are always prone to have their own subjective theories and ideas. When their own judgments are inconsistent with other people's ideas, they will fall into confusion and distress. At this time, their inner peace is disturbed, and people will naturally be unhappy.

There is such a legend: Pilang once took a boat out to sea, and unfortunately encountered a storm. The strong winds and waves caused the boat to bump violently, and everyone on the same boat was panicked, but Pilang remained calm as if nothing had happened. Pyrrho pointed to a little pig that was eating it calmly and said: A philosopher should be as indifferent as this little pig. This legend just illustrates Pyrrho's indifferent attitude. Because he does not make judgments, he is free from fear and worry.

We have had various exams in school since we were young. After the exam, we will be ranked according to the scores. At this time, some students may be unhappy because they failed in a certain exam or fell behind in the ranking. The reason is that we have our own judgments about exams and scores: we must do well in the exam and we must rank high, so that we can get into a better university and have a better future. If this happens for a long time, such judgment will affect our mood, because we believe in such judgment and think it is a valuable judgment. If we use Pyrrho's skepticism, it means not making any judgment about the exam, just treating the exam as the exam itself, not adding subjective opinions to it, and not caring about the score of the exam. Because the scores and rankings are objective facts, the reason why we think it is better to get high scores is because we have added our own judgment.

So, if we suspend judgment, the score will not interfere with our mood, and our hearts will naturally be in a state of tranquility. Pyrrho's skepticism is quite calm and calm, that is, "not to be happy with things, not to be sad with oneself".