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Sextus Empiricus is the most eminent physician and philosopher of the Skeptical School of Philosophy, which was closely connected with the Empirical Medical School in the Hellenistic Era. Reasonably, many of his opinions and doctrines in Medicine obviously agree with the principles of the Empirical and Methodical Schools and are entirely against the principles of Dogmatics. However Sextus was mostly known in the literature as a skeptic thinker rather than as empirical or methodic physician. On Skepticism Sextus asserts that it is a movement (αγωγή) for finding the truth.The skeptical way of life of a philosopher was characterized by persistent commitment to investigate the truth, based on objective arguments and real evidence, avoiding any dogmatic insistence and tendency of mind.
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Why is it important?
Sextus considered that science is the main source of pure knowledge, underling at the same time the relativity of the scientific data. Science, therefore, could not provide the authoritative truth and all its issues must be understood from a dialectical perspective, since whatever is debatable may concern reality.
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In the field of neurosciences, the recent achievements of the ongoing research, concerning the knowledge of the multi-dimensional potentiality and capacity of the human brain, the amazing synaptic activity and the miraculous neuronal plasticity as well as the numerous roots of the psychosomatic interactions, verify the crucial concept of the skepticism, that the acceptance of any scientific theory and principle requires a ‘critical and repeated experimental verification’, providing strong evidence that the theory is based on objective data. In addition, the scientist in order to suspend judgment on the validity of opposed theories needs to proceed to an accurate and critical experimentation for revealing the validity of the right theory, based on concrete evidence.
Professor Stavros J Baloyannis or Balogiannis or Balojannis or Baloyiannis or Mpalogiannis
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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This page is a summary of: Sextus Empiricus and Neurophilosophy, Journal of Neurology & Stroke, February 2019, MedCrave Group LLC,
DOI: 10.15406/jnsk.2019.09.00343.
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