DISBELIEF AS THERAPY

• Autor(a) principal: Junnior Neto, Francisco Alvarenga
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Sapere Aude (Belo Horizonte. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/SapereAude/article/view/25671
• topic: Ceticismo; Descrença; Dogmatismo; Suspensão do juízo; Verdade

The intention of this article is to present the path taken by the individual who understands himself as skeptical. Skepticism is seen as contrary to the dogmatic position, marked by the defense of arguments and theses as truths. Despite the definition of skepticism: as a posture marked by disbelief, skepticism cannot be understood only for this; that is, thinking the skeptical individual, he is not seen as such due to his willingness to oppose theses for the pure pleasure of carrying it out, before that, the skeptic's disbelief and opposition are almost natural, as inescapable results of their way of proceeding. Therefore, to understand the process that leads someone to become a skeptic and to stand against dogmatism, in the first section we will seek to present philosophical skepticism. In the second section, an attempt will be made to present the skeptical itinerary through which his identity is established. In the last section, we will try to highlight which are the points of dogmatism attacked by the skeptic in order to demonstrate its impossibility as a philosophical position.