[Buddha-l] Natural lucidity for Socrates

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

jkirk schreef:

> Hi Eric,
> Any references for any of these? Who wrote that Alex. the Gr. took a 
> sadhu with him? Who wrote about Pyrrhon and Jains?
> Thanks
> Joanna
> =====================

Hi Joanna,
 I don't have a copy of Wilhelm Halbfass 'India and Europe' at hand, but that's where I would look first. I remember that the Jains have a doctrine called syaatvaada, a method of systematic doubt that recognises 7 possibilities for each event (true, nontrue both, neither, nondiscrabable (avyaktavyam) etc.). This seems to resemble closest the doctrine Pyrrhon preached in Athens. But Pyrrhon never said where he got his ideas from, do the evidence is circumstantial. Google gives a number of interesting hits on Pyrrhon and jains and syatvada.

Erik


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