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This little book tells the story of the most important turning point in the history of Western thinking. That it is full of surprises, shows how widely misunderstood is the subject it treats. One of the most important things it demonstrates, without necessarily meaning to, is how radical skepticism has historically been an ally, rather than an enemy, of religion, and an enemy, rather than an ally, of science. Popkin is the undisputed master of this subject, and this book is filled with summaries and precious exerpts of works no longer accessible to most of us, and is worth buying for that reason alone.
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One of the main avenues through which the sceptical views of antiquity entered late Renaissance thought was a central quarrel of the Reformation, the dispute over the proper standard of religious knowledge, or what was called 'the rule of faith'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
humanistic sceptics, crise pyrrhonienne, sceptical dragon, sceptical crisis, nouveaux academiciens, constructive scepticism, arte dubitandi, demonstrations morales, rationalisme dans, nihil scitur, sceptical difficulties, secondes objections, inner persuasion, dialogues faits, complete doubt, scepticism with regard, complete scepticism, academic scepticism, mitigated scepticism, new dogmatism, ancient scepticism, demon hypothesis, sceptical problem, total scepticism, philosophie moderne Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sextus Empiricus, Common Notions, Herbert of Cherbury, Christian Pyrrhonism, Church Fathers, Diogenes Laertius, Catholic Church, Richard Simon, Pierre Charron, Catholic Pyrrhonism, Father Bourdin, Gian Francesco Pico, Holy Spirit, Pierre Bayle, Cardinal du Perron, Francis Bacon, French Counter-Reformers, Gentian Hervet, God's Revelation, Holy Scripture, Michel de Montaigne, Cardinal Richelieu, Church of Rome, Cicero's Academica, David Hume New!
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One of the main avenues through which the sceptical views of antiquity entered late Renaissance thought was a central quarrel of the Reformation, the dispute over the proper standard of religious knowledge, or what was called 'the rule of faith'. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
humanistic sceptics, crise pyrrhonienne, sceptical dragon, sceptical crisis, nouveaux academiciens, constructive scepticism, arte dubitandi, demonstrations morales, rationalisme dans, nihil scitur, sceptical difficulties, secondes objections, inner persuasion, dialogues faits, complete doubt, scepticism with regard, complete scepticism, academic scepticism, mitigated scepticism, new dogmatism, ancient scepticism, demon hypothesis, sceptical problem, total scepticism, philosophie moderne Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sextus Empiricus, Common Notions, Herbert of Cherbury, Christian Pyrrhonism, Church Fathers, Diogenes Laertius, Catholic Church, Richard Simon, Pierre Charron, Catholic Pyrrhonism, Father Bourdin, Gian Francesco Pico, Holy Spirit, Pierre Bayle, Cardinal du Perron, Francis Bacon, French Counter-Reformers, Gentian Hervet, God's Revelation, Holy Scripture, Michel de Montaigne, Cardinal Richelieu, Church of Rome, Cicero's Academica, David Hume New!
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- Cicero Scepticus: A Study of the Influence of the `Academica' in the Renaissance (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées) by Charles B. Schmitt on 7 pages
- Outlines of Pyrrhonism: Sextus Empiricus (Great Books in Philosophy) by R. G. Bury on 7 pages
- Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics) by Desiderius Erasmus on 4 pages
- Improvement of the Understanding by Baruch Spinoza on page 240, page 241, and Back Matter
- A Treatise of Human Nature (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Empires of Belief: Why We Need More Skepticism and Doubt in the Twenty-First Century by Stuart Sim on 5 pages
- Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy: Gassendi and Descartes on Contingency and Necessity in the Created World by Margaret J. Osler in Front Matter, page 40, and page 106
- Scepticism, Freedom and Autonomy: A Study of the Moral Foundations of Descartes' Theory of Knowledge (Quellen Und Studien Zur Philosophie) by Marcelo de Araujo on page 83, page 95, and Back Matter
- Descartes's Mathematical Thought (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science) by C. Sasaki on page 374, page 376, and Back Matter
- Freedom of Speech: Words are not Deeds by Harry M. Bracken on page 88, and Back Matter
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