 However, such traces of skepticism are integrated into an ultimately non-skeptical philosophy. In Contra Academicos, Augustine recognizes a core feature of ancient skepticism, namely that it is a commitment to ongoing inquiry (cf. Nawar 2019 on Augustine’s defense of knowledge against the skeptics in Contra Academicos 3). The question that Augustine considers vital, then, is whether a life devoted to inquiry can be compelling, if seemingly there is no prospect for ever attaining truth (cf. Lagerlund 2009). It is as a philosophy of inquiry that skepticism makes a lasting contribution to ethics, continuing, as it were, a Socratic legacy (Vogt 2017).