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Timon [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Timon (fl. 279 BCE.)
Timon was a disciple of Pyrrho and philosopher of the sect of the Skeptics, who flourished in
the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus, about 279 BCE. and onwards.
The son of Timarchus of Phlius, Timon first studied philosophy at Megara, under Stilpo, and
then returned home and married. He next went to Elis with his wife, and heard Pyrrho, whose
tenets he adopted. Driven from Elis by straitened circumstances, he spent some time on the
Hellespont an the Propontis, and taught at Chalcedon as a sophist with such success that he
acquired a fortune. He then moved to Athens, where he passed the remainder of his life, with the
exception of a short residence at Thebes. He died at the age of almost ninety.
Timon appears to have had an active mind, and with a quick perception of the follies of people
which betrays its possessor into a spirit of universal distrust both of men and truths, so as to
make him a skeptic in philosophy and a satirist in everything. His agnosticism (to use a modern
term) is shown by his saying that people need only know three things -- viz. what is the nature of
things, how we are related to them, and what we can gain from them. But as our knowledge of
things must always be subjective and unreal, we can only live in a state of suspended judgment.
He wrote numerous works both in prose and poetry. The most celebrated of his poems were the
satiric compositions called silli, a word of somewhat doubtful etymology, but which
undoubtedly describes metrical compositions of a character at once ludicrous and sarcastic. The
invention of this species of poetry is ascribed to Xenophones of Colophon. The Silli of
Timon were in three books, in the first of which he spoke in his own person, and the other two
are in the form of a dialogue between the author and Xenophanes of Colophon, in which Timon
proposed question,s to which Xenophanes replied at length. The subject was a sarcastic account
of the tenets of all philosophers, living and dead -- and unbounded field for skepticism and satire.
They were in hexameter verse, and from the way in which they are mentioned by the ancient
writers, as well as from the few fragments of them which have come down to us, it is evident that
they were admirable productions. (Diog. Laert. ix. 12, 109-155; Euseb. Praep. Ev. xiv. p. 761).
The author of this article is anonymous. The IEP is actively seeking an author who will write a replacement article.
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