Abstract
The article analyses the relations between philosophy, scepticism and hubris in Hölderlin's novel Hyperion or the Hermit in Greece. It focuses in particular on the ideas formulated by the title character in the last letter of the first volume of the novel and their position in the whole of the novel.
Hyperion is unsuccessfully looking for a thought that would not alienate one from his or her fate. But in the novel as a whole, one can perhaps find at least suggestions of a promising direction.