Escepticismo

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Quizás off topic, ahí va eso:


"Scepticism should not be looked upon merely as a doctrine of doubt. It
would be more correct to say that the Sceptic has no doubt of his point,
which is the
nothingness of all finite existence. He who only doubts still clings to
the hope that his doubt may be resolved, and that one or other of the
definite views, between
which he wavers, will turn out solid and true. Scepticism properly so
called is a very different thing: its is complete hopelessness about all
which understanding counts
stable, and the feeling to which it gives birth is one of unbroken
calmness and inward repose. Such at least is the noble Scepticism of
antiquity, especially as exhibited
in the writings of Sextus Empiricus, when in the later times of Rome it
had been systematised as a complement to the dogmatic systems of Stoic
and Epicurean. 

Of far other stamp, and to be strictly distinguished from it, is the
modern Scepticism ..., which partly preceded the Critical Philosophy,
and partly sprang out of it.
That later Scepticism consisted solely in denying the truth and
certitude of the supersensible, and in pointing to the facts of sense
and of immediate sensations as what
we have to keep to. 

Even to this day Scepticism is often spoken of as the irresistible enemy
of all positive knowledge, and hence of philosophy, in so far as
philosophy is concerned with
positive knowledge. But in these statements there is a misconception. It
is only the finite thought of abstract understanding which has to fear
Scepticism, because
unable to withstand it: philosophy includes the sceptical principle as a
subordinate function of its own, in the shape of Dialectic. In
contradistinction to mere
scepticism, however, philosophy does not remain content with the purely
negative result of Dialectic. 

The sceptic mistakes the true value of his result, when he supposes it
to be no more than a negation pure and simple. For the negative which
emerges as the result of
dialectic is, because a result, at the same time positive: it contains
what it results from, absorbed into itself, and made part of its own
nature. Thus conceived,
however, the dialectical stage has the features characterising the third
grade of logical truth, the speculative form, or form of positive
reason."

		del cap. VI de La Logica Abreviada de Hegel.



Saludos.

J.M.Garcia.


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