A Brief History of Skepticism - Epistemology Video 22

This is video 22 in an introductory course on epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge. In this video, we discuss the history of skepticism: its roots in the Platonic dialogues, the purpose of skepticism in the Ancient world, and its transformation by René Descartes. It is only in the 17th century that skepticism becomes a methodological tool and takes on the form of doubts about the existence of an external world.

[jamespierce]

David Hume, the skeptic among skeptics, told us that we can not derive an ought from an is.

[АклызМелкенды]

So platonic sceptics were close to taoists