Filosofia scettica e politica: la soluzione pirroniana

Why should we search for traces of a legitimate political attitude in those philosophers – ancient sceptics, especially the ones connected to the current of Pyrrhonism – who are structurally incapable of distinguishing between good and evil, just and unjust, and of establishing any fixed points, any positive and universal values on which to anchor their dealings with and among other men? Against the background of this very negative dogmatic judgement, the (surely ambitious, although disputable) aim of this paper will be to carefully examine those passages of Sextus Empiricus' corpus – the most valuable source for reconstructing ancient Pyrrhonism (if for no other reason but because it is the most extensive one) – from which it seems possible to draw rather weighty and relevant information regarding the sceptical approach to political issues.