5000 Years of Skepticism, Part 1: Introduction

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5000 Years of Skepticism, Part 2, Ancient Periods

This is a new Sunday lecture. Meeting starts 9:00AM with friendly conversation, then a dialogue at 9:15AM and a Q&A discussion follows.

This is a new Sunday lecture. Meeting starts 9:00AM with friendly conversation, then a dialogue at 9:15AM and a Q&A discussion follows.

DESCRIPTION
Our new series is on Skepticism. We will start in Egypt, India, and Greece, and then move forward through the centuries. We will consider how Skepticism has helped humanity make progress, including correcting old notions and fixing mistakes. The schedule appears below, so you can mark your calendars. We hope you will join us for this interesting series on Skepticism.

SCHEDULE

4-27 Part 1: Introduction
--> 5-04 Part 2: Ancient Periods of Skepticism
5-11 Part 3: Skepticism in the Common Era
5-18 Part 4: Skepticism in the Renaissance Period
5-25 Part 5: Skepticism in the Enlightenment Period
6-01 Part 6: (TBD)
6-08 Part 7: (TBD)

READING MATERIALS

Part 2, Ancient Periods of Skepticism

- Ptah Hotep, Egypt (c. 2500 BCE), https://www.willbuckingham.com/ptahhotep/

- Charvarka, India (c. 600 BCE)
https://www.worldhistory.org/Charvaka/

- Pyrrho of Ellis, Greece (c. 300 BCE)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_skepticism#Pyrrho_of_Elis

- Zhuang, China (c. 300 BCE),
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_skepticism#Zhuang_Zhou_(c.369%E2%80%93_c._286_BCE)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_skepticism#Zhuang_Zhou_(c.369%E2%80%93_c._286_BCE))

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