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The history of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza /

Rev. ed. published in 1964 under title: The history of scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 300-326.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Popkin, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1923-2005
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1979.
Edition:Revised and expanded edition.
Series:Campus (Berkeley, Calif.) ; 226.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The intellectual crisis of the Reformation
  • The revival of Greek scepticism in the 16th century
  • Michel de Montaigne and the 'nouveaux Pyrrhoniens'
  • The influence of the new Pyrrhonism
  • The libertins érudits
  • The counter-attack begins
  • Constructive or mitigated scepticism
  • Herbert of Cherbury and Jean de Silhon
  • Descartes : conqueror of scepticism
  • Descartes : sceptique malgré lui
  • Isaac La Peyrère and the beginning of religious scepticism
  • Spinoza's scepticism and anti-scepticism.