Abstract:
Based on a study of the tropes of Aenesidemus discussed by Sextus Empiricus in his Pyrrhoniae Hypotyposes, we propose a reading which leads us to the need to postulate for contemporary thought a new universality that is radical and insurmountable. By this means, the philosophical content and scope of skepticism can be understood in the sense of an encounter - finally - with the much sought after notion of truth as that which can not be possessed, or whose announced possession is always the revelation of a one-sidedness. In addition, a place of non-relativistic thought can be secured against dogmatic intolerance and against dissatisfaction with the conflicts of philosophy.
Keywords:
Epoché; Psyche; Physis; Poiesis; Skepticism; Truth; Radical universality