ABSTRACT
A practical problem very germane to the issue of scepticism arises here in confronting the Hellenic sceptic with modern teaching on positive mental health. The sceptic's failure may seem to come more easily from social rather than psychological sources: in a society which puts heavy stress on verbal conformity in the form of unconditional, explicit acceptance of ideological items in terms of true or false, the sceptic is likely to suffer maladjustment and consequent loss of peace of mind. One might reasonably predict important social implications of widespread scepticism, even of the fragmentary, unphilosophical kind. On the positive side, the sceptic has at least one distant goal, to find truth, and one ideal, true knowledge. Gordon Allport seems to be the psychologist who makes the sceptic appear most unhealthy. He speaks about a unifying philosophy of life as a sign of maturity.
