Scetticismo e ricerca della verità: nota sul termine ζητησισ in Sesto Empirico

Massimo Catapano

doi:10.19283/lph-20164.483

Scetticismo e ricerca della verità: nota sul termine ζητησισ in Sesto Empirico

Authors

Massimo Catapano Sapienza – Università di Roma

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19283/lph-20164.483

Keywords:

Sextus Empiricus, Pyrrhonism, Negative Metadogmatism, Arcesilaus, Scepticism, Rationality

Abstract

This paper argues that Sceptic philosophers’ search for the truth is different from the Dogmatic one: the Sceptics indeed investigate the truth of Dogmatic philosophers’ theories. That is not inconsistent with a genuine search for truth, since the Sceptics do not maintain that the Dogmatic philosophical theories are necessarily false.

English title: Scepticism and the search for truth: note on the term ζητησισ in Sextus Empiricus