O problema da apraxía na epokhḗ pirrônica a partir do ponto de vista dos signos comemorativos em Sexto Empírico

Abstract

The discussion on the limits of the suspension of judgment (epokhḗ) is one of the core questions concerning the Pyrrhonism, whose most hard charge alleges the impossibility of acting (apraxía) in state of suspension of judgment. The controversy concerns on the inclusion of the ordinary beliefs in scope of the epokhḗ, contrasting the “urbane” and “rustic” views. Although the two of them conceptions present reasonable arguments, they give chance to serious practical problems, with implications on viability of living according to the Pyrrhonic way of life (agōgḗ). In order to overcome the problems to arise from the meanings of these views as for the limits of epokhḗ, is advocated a thesis that reconsiders the role of the commemorative sign within the sphere of the Pyrrhonian agōgḗ, through which it is possible to establish coherence between live life and suspend judgement. From this perspective, was observed the charge of apraxía within the scope of debate between urbane and rustic and, owing to impasse between the two of them in relation to epokhḗ, those challenge stay. As an alternative, was analyzed the commemorative sign and its conformity with the phenomenon and the everyday life. Given its relationships with the two of them, was verified its feasibility to play the role of lógos in the Pyrrhonic agōgḗ. This result showed that this new view is a promising reply against the charge of apraxía, offering a key to a compatible read between Pyrrhonian’s epokhḗ and agōgḗ.