012 Gorgias: The Radical Skeptic (Nothing Exists)

Are we able to know truths about the world? Or are they just something that we cannot reach? Socrates and Plato said that we cannot know truths about the world. Not only that, but we actually already knew the truths about the world even before we were born. When we were borne into the world, we crossed the river of forgetfulness and forgot everything we knew. So, we basically amnesia patients. So learning the truths of the world is actually just a process of recalling them.
But there are also people who claim that we cannot know truths about the world. They are called the skeptics. There are three representative skeptics of ancient Greece. Pyrrho, Protagoras, and Gorgias. Pyrrho believed that we do not know the absolute truth yet, so we should withhold judgment on it and keep searching for it. Saying that “Man is the measure of all things,” Protagoras argued that all truths and are relative. Lastly, Gorgias believed that there is no such thing as the truth in the world, and that even if there were a truth, we could not know it. It seems that Gorgias had the strongest view of skepticism out of the three philosophers. That is why he is called a radical skeptic. Today’s story is about Gorgias.

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