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1 online resource |
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International Archives of the History of Ideas, 0066-6610 ; 210 |
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Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 210
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Early Eighteenth Century Scepticism: From Bayle to Fontenelle. Bayle and Pyrrhonism: Antinomy, Method, and History / Plínio J. Smith -- Fideism, Scepticism, or Free-Thought? The Dispute Between Lamy and Saint-Laurens over Metaphysical Knowledge / Syliane Malinowski-Charles -- Leibniz's Anti-scepticism. / Arnaud Pelletier -- The Protestant Critics of Bayle at the Dawn of the Enlightenment / Anton Matytsin -- The "Wise Pyrrhonism" of the Académie Royale Des Sciences of Paris: Natural Light and Obscurity of Nature According to Fontenelle / Luc Peterschmitt -- Enlightenment and Scepticism: From Shaftesbury to Enfield. Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Moral Scepticisms / Peter J.E. Kail -- Hume and Bayle on Localization and Perception: A New Source for Hume's Treatise 1.4.5 / Gianni Paganini -- Hume's Reply to Baylean Scepticism / Todd Ryan -- Can We Know Whether Scepticism Is Right or Wrong? Reid's Criticism and Hume's Answer / Claire Etchegaray -- Enfield's Brucker and Christian Anti-scepticism in Enlightenment Historiography of Philosophy / John Christian Laursen -- and Scepticism: From Boyer d'Argens to Brissot de Warville. Reasonable Scepticism in the French Enlightenment: Some Connections Between Jean-Baptiste Boyer d'Argens, Louis de Beausobre, and Voltaire / Nicolas Correard -- Forms and Aims of Voltairean Scepticism / Stéphane Pujol -- D'un scepticisme involontaire à un scepticisme existentiel. Un parcours philosophique dans l'œuvre de Rousseau / Marc-André Nadeau -- An Uneasy Relationship: Atheism and Scepticism in the Late French Enlightenment / Alan Charles Kors -- From Universal Pyrrhonism to Revolutionary Scepticism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville / Sébastien Charles -- and Scepticism: From Kant to Schopenhauer. Kant's Criticism and the Legacy of Modern Scepticism / Plínio J. Smith -- Maimon, scepticisme et lumières / Ives Radrizzani -- Scepticisme et dialectique des Lumières chez le jeune Hegel / Italo Testa -- Hegel on Scepticism and Irony / Massimiliano Biscuso -- Fichte et Schopenhauer face au scepticisme de Schulze / Eduardo Brandão -- Some Echoes of Eighteenth Century Scepticism in the Nineteenth Century. Building Without a Foundation. The Equation of Enlightenment with Skepticism in Post-revolutionary French Thought / Frédéric Brahami -- Scepticisme et Lumières selon Lamennais / Philip Knee |
| Summary |
The Age of Enlightenment has often been portrayed as a dogmatic period on account of the veritable worship of reason and progress that characterized Eighteenth Century thinkers. Even today the philosophes are considered to have been completely dominated in their thinking by an optimism that leads to dogmatism and ultimately rationalism. However, on closer inspection, such a conception seems untenable, not only after careful study of the impact of scepticism on numerous intellectual domains in the period, but also as a result of a better understanding of the character of the Enlightenment. As G |
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Philosophy (General) |
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Humanities |
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History |
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Philosophy |
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History of Philosophy |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Skepticism -- History -- 18th century
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Philosophy, Modern -- 18th century.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Rationalism.
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Droit.
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Sciences sociales.
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Sciences humaines.
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Philosophy, Modern
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Skepticism
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Charles, Sébastien.
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J. Smith, Plínio
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| ISBN |
9789400748101 |
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9400748108 |
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9400748094 |
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9789400748095 |
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