Sabios ignorantes y felices

In recent decades, almost all the schools of ancient wisdom have claimed responsibility for achieving truth or inner tranquility: from the Stoics to the Cynics, from the Epicureans to Plato and Aristotle, through the Chinese Taoists, the Buddhists of the Japanese zen or Indian yoga. In this constant recovery of the classics, only the skeptical school seems to be missing. Today we tend to associate skepticism with ordinary disbelief. However, skepticism does not imply an absolute denial, but rather the opposite, that is, the questioning of dogmas, clichés and prejudices. Philosophical skepticism derives from the word skepsis which means "to investigate", not to settle for a dogmatic answer. Thinking with sense implies doubting, questioning the apparent certainties. That is why skepticism has been one of the most powerful traditions in the history of philosophy and science, which is still valid and deserves to be claimed if we want to understand fundamental aspects of our mind and what surrounds us. A work of singular importance that reconstructs the thought of the Greco-Latin skeptics, addressed equally to initiates and laymen.