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The dominance of the ascetic ideal over philosophy explains why the value of truth has never been treated as a philosophical problem.

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1.The ascetic ideal has been lord over all philosophy up to the present.
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2.Under the ascetic ideal, truth is equated with being, god, and the highest authority.
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3.When truth is treated as the highest authority itself, questioning its value is not permitted.
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1.Pyrrhonian skeptics systematically suspended judgment on truth's reliability, treating its value as genuinely open rather than presupposed.
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2.Academic skeptics like Carneades developed probabilism precisely because they questioned whether truth was attainable or worth pursuing as an ideal.
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3.These ancient traditions predate and directly contradict the claim that philosophy universally deferred to truth as an unquestioned authority.
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