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As I read more and more Philosophy and get a feel for it greater scope I can’t help but realize that it is teeming with ironic twist. This is something that I am sure my father would be skeptical about, because he always questions the use of Irony whenever he encounters its use, which is in itself somewhat Ironic given the topic on which I am now commenting.

Elis of Pyrrhon, other wise know as Elis the founder of the school of Sceptics, made a very large contribution to Philosophy, but it was not entirely his school of thought. Rather, the largest contribution Elis made was in the preservation of major Hellenistic thought through his rigorous quotation while he was attempting to undermine them for being to positive. If it had not been for the rigorous quotation almost all Hellenistic philosophy would have been lost to history.

I think that it is sort of funny that this man was so Skeptical that he paid no attention to the anything in the world because he was not sure that any thing was really there, as a result he had his lackeys run around with him all of the to make sure he didn’t get hurt. It seems a small bit in consistent (and perhaps dishonest) to not trust the appearance of the real world enough to pay it heed, but to trust it enough to allow other people to pay it heed for your own benefit. I just don’t buy it.

On another note the Title of the book that contains most of the Hellenistic quotation is pretty cool:

Pros dogmatikous (.Against the Dogmatists.)