Castalian Stream’s Confusion About Pyrrhonism

Douglas C. Bates
11 min readAug 18, 2023
Skeptics in Raphael’s School of Athens painting.

Matthew Sharpe, author of Stoicism, Bullying, and Beyond, who writes about philosophy as a way of life on Medium.com under the nom de plume, “Castalian Stream,” has written an article critiquing Pyrrhonism as a way of life: “Some sceptical remarks on Pyrrhonian scepticism as a way of life.”

Castalian Stream's self-description says he writes “articles on philosophy, psychology &…

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Douglas C. Bates

Ancient Greek philosophies of life. http://www.pyrrhonism.org Author of “Pyrrho’s Way: The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism.”