Sexto Empírico. The skeptical philosopher who leads to the modern medicine

Abstract

During this health crisis, philosophy has not only provided us with a minister of health with an interest in its study and knowledge, but different schools of philosophical thought, formed centuries ago, now take on unusual strength and offer profound answers to current health problems. From a philosophical field, I will try to reason some answers that philosophy gives us to our profession.

Skepticism, more than a philosophical school, could be considered a vital attitude, the basis of which is doubt and is in opposition to dogmatism. It could be considered that it is one of the currents of thought that has strongly survived the twenty-five centuries of the history of philosophy, fundamentally because it relies on that nature, so intrinsically human, to doubt everything else. 2000 years ago the foundations of modern Evidence-based medicine were laid.