De la suspensión (del juicio) a la serenidad (del) espíritu

Abstract

There are many ways to approach the study of reality. In philosophy, there are many doctrines or schools that offer a unique way of knowing. In the Hellenistic period, different philosophical thoughts coexisted that offered a way of approaching the knowledge of reality; which, Sixth Empirical divides them into three general lines of philosophy: dogmatism, the Academy and skepticism. In which, both dogmatism and the Academy, are the best-known philosophies in that they are the basis of several thinkers to build their own perceptions or ideas on how to know what surrounds us. As it is understood, dogmatism and the Academy manage a system of dogmas, in which they defend the truth in a positive or negative sense; they are two lines that try to impose themselves in front of other ways of thinking. The third line, skepticism, which was not as recognized at the time as dogmatism, breaks with all master-disciple schema, the imposition of ideas of a single philosopher, how to approach knowledge, the search for absolute truths that explain the phenomena and the position of the philosopher in his exercise of knowing. Skepticism becomes a way of life, which the person is free to adapt to respond to one of the discussions of time, as the criterion of truth. The discussion about whether there is an absolute truth, about the way we approach knowledge and about the position and the role that the philosopher must adopt to arrive at his answers, is preserved today. Skepticism offers a way to approach this discussion and allows us to take up several elements.