Montaigne#
Summary#
Montaigne is invoked as a representative of skeptical philosophy, epitomized by his famous question “What do I know?” Nietzsche presents him as an exemplar of those who make “a festival to virtue by a noble aloofness,” preferring uncertainty and suspended judgment over hasty conclusions. His skepticism is characterized as a refusal to straighten what is crooked or stuff every hole with hypotheses.