Edition |
Rev. and expanded ed. |
Description |
xxiv, 415 p. ; 24 cm. |
Subject |
Skepticism -- History.
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Note |
Rev. and expanded ed. of: The history of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza. Rev. and expanded ed. c1979. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-407) and index. |
Contents |
1. The intellectual crisis of the reformation -- 2. The revival of Greek scepticism in the sixteenth century -- 3. Michel de Montaigne and the Nouveaux Pyrrhoniens -- 4. The influence of the new Pyrrhonism -- 5. The Libertins Érudits -- 6. The counterattack begins -- 7. Constructive or mitigated scepticism -- 8. Herbert of Cherbury and Jean de Silhon -- 9. Decartes: conqueror of scepticism -- 10. Decartes: Sceptique Malgré Lui -- 11. Some spiritual and religious answers to scepticism and descartes: Henry More, Blaise Pascal, and Quietists -- 12. Political and practical answers to scepticism: Thomas Hobbes -- 13. Philosophers of the royal society: Wilkins, Boyle, and Glanvill -- 14. Biblical criticism and the beginning of religious scepticism -- 15. Spinoza's scepticism and antiscepticism -- 16. Scepticism and late seventeenth-century metaphysics -- 17. The new sceptics: Simon Foucher and Pierre-Daniel Huet -- 18. Pierre Bayle: superscepticism and the beginnings of enlightenment dogmatism. |
Add Author |
Popkin, Richard Henry, 1923-
History of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza.
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LC # |
B779 .P65 2003 |
ISBN |
0195107675 (alk. paper) |
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0195107683 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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