Abstract
Şüphecilik ve Platoncu Miras: Akademik Şüpheciler Platon’a İhanet Etti mi?
Academic skepticism plays a key role in the history of Platonism. Several attempts have been made to understand the skeptical turn of Academy and the philosophical merits of Academic skepticism. However, the legitimacy of Academic skepticism as a justifiable interpretation of Plato has yet to be understood. This paper explores the degree to which Academic skepticism can be considered as a reasonable reading of Plato. To this aim, Cicero’s Academica will be used to explore the relationship between Academic skepticism and its critics. The findings show that the negligence of Academic skepticism as a valuable Platonic movement is partly because of the one-sided reading of Plato’s works and partly because Antiochus’ history of Platonism is biased and polemical. In conclusion, this paper implies that the New Academy’s skeptical interpretation provides a unique and valuable guide to assist scholars in understanding Plato.
Keywords
Scepticism, academic skepticism, Platonism, Old Academy, Academica.
