Skepticism and truth: essay on the radical universality of a post-skeptical thought

Based on a study of the tropes of Aenesidemus discussed by Sextus Empiricus in hisPyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, we propose a reading which leads us to the need to postulate for contemporarythought a new universality that is radical and insurmountable. By this means, the philosophicalcontent and scope of s...

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Autor principal: Andrade, Abrahão Costa
Formato: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/5823
http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/73501
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Sumario:Based on a study of the tropes of Aenesidemus discussed by Sextus Empiricus in hisPyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, we propose a reading which leads us to the need to postulate for contemporarythought a new universality that is radical and insurmountable. By this means, the philosophicalcontent and scope of skepticism can be understood in the sense of an encounter – finally – with themuch sought after notion of truth as that which can not be possessed, or whose announced possessionis always the revelation of a one-sidedness. In addition, a place of non-relativistic thought can besecured against dogmatic intolerance and against dissatisfaction with the conflicts of philosophy.