Origin of Skepticism
I held a long, nuanced conversation with a very close friend late into the night. Through exhaustion I finally conceded by saying: I don’t know anything.
The human mind isn’t really designed to know things. You know, the natural world has designed us to stay alive and to reproduce, but not really to gather truth, and we shouldn’t expect too much from it. We should try to know the world by questioning what we can’t know and take that kind of approach. And, you know, Socrates said he knew more than anybody else because he knew he didn’t know anything. So this could be the origin of skepticism.
I was told once….”…the truly hopeless case is the man who does not know that he does not know…..”