Conclusion

This chapter concludes the book by emphasising the importance of reconsidering today Pyrrho and Aenesidemus’ ideas. For centuries, humans have enjoyed the comforting delusions of being the measuring masters of space and time. And yet, the time has perhaps come for these delusions to be questioned and doubted once more. Out of the four elements of ancient Greek thought, air finally acquires all its metaphorical relevance for its potential to disrupt received wisdom on reality, time, and thought. Over the devasted landscapes and dying oceans, winds are out of control, minds are reckless, and times are short. This is no mere apocalypse; this is air finally making itself known to the little creatures skuttling over Earth’s surface. Against the instrumental logics established at the time of Aristotle, logos finally acquires with Pyrrho’s tetralemma and Aenesidemus’ time is air, its true meteorological dimension. All change at will without reason over the desolate ruins of a few all-too-logical past fantasies. Pyrrho and Aenesidemus’ ideas might just allow us to rekindle with our turbulent aporetic logos, one for which all is both contradictory and non-contradictory, measured and chaotic.