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The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle /

This is the third edition of a classic book first published in 1960, which has sold thousands of copies in two paperback edition and has been translated into several foreign languages. Popkin's work has generated innumerable citations, and remains a valuable stimulus to current historical resea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Popkin, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1923-2005
Otros Autores: Popkin, Richard Henry, 1923-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Edición:Rev. and expanded ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.