DE L’ANCIEN ET MODERNE SCEPTICISME CHEZ HEGEL
ON ANCIENT AND MODERN SCEPTICISM IN HEGEL

Summary/Abstract: The objective of this article is to analyze the differences between the two forms of skepticism as conceived by Hegel, i.e. ancient and modern skepticism. We shall examine this in the first part of this work and in the second, we shall see how for Hegel, ancient skepticism is in fact a moment of philosophy and not its enemy, as was the case for Sextus Empiricus. Finally, in the third part, we will explore the paradox at the heart of this Hegelian distinction. This paradox lies in the fact that Hegel seems to misinterpret skepticism as Greek philosophers such as Pyrrho first conceived it, abolishing all appearances or phenomena as a result. Therefore, ancient skepticism, according to Hegel, has more resemblance to nihilism than to the way of life as purported by the ancient skeptics themselves.

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