Doubt and Anxiety: An Existentialist Reconstruction of Pyrrhonism

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to develop a potential relation between Pyrrhonism andexistentialism. This is possible by establishing either an existentialist reconstruction ofPyrrhonism or a Pyrrhonian reconstruction of existentialism. The necessity of unveiling sucha relation derives from: (1) the lack of an epistemological sceptical perspective and anormative ethical position within existentialism; (2) the lack of an accurate analysis of thehuman being within Pyrrhonism. However, the compatibility of the strong aspects inherent inboth schools, the sceptical subjectivist arguments and the normative approach to moralityinherent in Pyrrhonism and the analysis of the human being in relation to anxiety, potentiality,becoming, alienation, inauthenticity, authenticity and freedom inherent in existentialism, mayshow us a new way of looking into the universe and human life.