ABSTRACT
Sextus’ testimony is based on his inability to decide between competing philosophical schools of thought and their perspectives without the assistance of an available metacriterion with which to judge the Truth in its essence or reality. Sextus’ Pyrrhonian Skepticism and its ability to bring about this desired goal is a far cry from what the history of philosophy and popular opinion have maligned as a corrosive, degenerative disease that infects cultures with relativism, cynicism, and nihilism. One might describe Sextus as a spiritual tour guide and physician of the soul, and the Outlines as a therapeutic travel guide for those on the quest for Truth and, thus, tranquility. Sextus’ books represent the meticulous work of a master physician and chronicler of the various strains of philosophical disease. The philosophical quest for Truth as taught by non-Skeptics is diagnosed by Sextus as the cause of the malady of anxiety and not the remedy for it.
