The Significance of Scepticism in Philosophy, Judaism, and Culture

Date
21–24 July 2024

Abstract
The value of scepticism in philosophy has been judged differently: while Pyrrhonist sceptics conceived of scepticism as a way to happiness, later philosophers – especially in the early modern period – conceived of it as a malady from which we cannot be cured. Yet, for all this disagreement these philosophers agreed that scepticism is deeply bound up with our human condition: our predicament of being finite and yet having to come to terms with an infinite complex world. As research at MCAS over the previous years has shown, scepticism is also relevant for other domains of human thought and practice, which are equally affected by our finite nature, which prevents us from attaining certainty.

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