Download or read book The History of Scepticism written by Richard Henry Popkin and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Download or read book The History of Scepticism written by Richard H. Popkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thoroughly revised and expanded edition of Richard Popkin's classic The History of Scepticism, first published in 1960, revised in 1979, and since translated into numerous foreign languages. This authoritative work of historical scholarship has been revised throughout, including new material on: the introduction of ancient skepticism into Renaissance Europe; the role of Savonarola and his disciples in bringing Sextus Empiricus to the attention of European thinkers; and new material on Henry More, Blaise Pascal, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Nicolas Malebranche, G.W. Leibniz, Simon Foucher and Pierre-Daniel Huet, and Pierre Bayle. The bibliography has also been updated.

Download or read book The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza written by Richard H. Popkin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I had read the book before in the shorter Harper Torchbook edition but read it again right through--and found it as interesting and exciting as before. I regard it as one of the seminal books in the history of ideas. Based on a prodigious amount of original research, it demonstrated conclusively and in fascinating details how the transmission of ancient skepticism was a bital factor in the formation of modern thought. The story is rich in implications for th history of philosophy, the history of science, and the history of religious thought. Popkin's work has already inspired further work by others--and the new edition takes account of this, most importantly the work of Charles Schmitt. The two new chapters extend the story as far as Spinoza, with special reference to the beginnings of biblical criticism. . . . Popkin's history is of great potential interest to a wide readership--wider than most specialist publications and wider than it has (so far as I can tell) reached hitherto."--M.F. Burnyeat, Professor of Philosophy, University College London

Download or read book The History Of Scepticism From Erasmus To Descartes written by Richard Popkin and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Download or read book The Return of Scepticism written by Gianni Paganini and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles (the Vercelli conference proceedings) places the theme of scepticism within its philosophical tradition. It explores the English philosophical thinkers, the French context, as well as major Italian figures and Spanish culture. It pays special attention to the relationships between history of philosophical ideas and the problems rising from the history of sciences (medicine, physics, linguistics, historical scholarship) in the 17th and the18th centuries.

Download or read book Histoire du scepticisme written by Richard Popkin and published by Agone. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « En contestant les critères traditionnels de la connaissance religieuse, la Réforme pose une question fondamentale et ouvre une boîte de Pandore : comment justifier les fondements de notre connaissance ? Ce problème va déclencher une crise sceptique qui va bientôt affecter l’ensemble du panorama intellectuel de l’Occident. » Le scepticisme est au principe de la pensée moderne — et partant, de la nôtre —, montre Richard Popkin : loin d’être un âge dogmatique où triomphe une raison souveraine, l’époque moderne émerge avec la redécouverte, au sortir du Moyen Âge, de l’arsenal argumentatif élaboré par les sceptiques de l’Antiquité, en même temps que s’ouvre la crise de l’autorité spirituelle entraînée par la Réforme. Se trouve alors posée, dans toute sa portée politique et religieuse, la question philosophique fondamentale du critère de la vérité. Aucune analyse de ce courant de pensée, qui double toute l’histoire de la philosophie et constitue une tradition de résistance intellectuelle à toute forme d’idéologie et à tous les dogmatismes, n’a l’ampleur de cet ouvrage, inédit en français. Il plonge dans la vie, les écrits et le monde des figures les plus significatives du scepticisme et de l’anti-scepticisme, de Savonarole et Érasme à Pierre Bayle et David Hume, en passant par Descartes et Spinoza.

Download or read book Histoire du scepticisme written by Richard Henry Popkin and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: « En contestant les critères traditionnels de la connaissance religieuse, la Réforme pose une question fondamentale et ouvre une boîte de Pandore : comment justifier les fondements de notre connaissance ? Ce problème va déclencher une crise sceptique qui va bientôt affecter l'ensemble du panorama intellectuel de l'Occident. » Le scepticisme est au principe de la pensée moderne - et partant, de la nôtre -, montre Richard Popkin : loin d'être un âge dogmatique où triomphe une raison souveraine, l'époque moderne émerge avec la redécouverte, au sortir du Moyen Âge, de l'arsenal argumentatif élaboré par les sceptiques de l'Antiquité, en même temps que s'ouvre la crise de l'autorité spirituelle entraînée par la Réforme. Se trouve alors posée, dans toute sa portée politique et religieuse, la question philosophique fondamentale du critère de la vérité. Aucune analyse de ce courant de pensée, qui double toute l'histoire de la philosophie et constitue une tradition de résistance intellectuelle à toute forme d'idéologie et à tous les dogmatismes, n'a l'ampleur de cet ouvrage, inédit en français. Il plonge dans la vie, les écrits et le monde des figures les plus significatives du scepticisme et de l'anti-scepticisme, de Savonarole et Érasme à Pierre Bayle et David Hume, en passant par Descartes et Spinoza. Richard Popkin (1923-2005), philosophe américain, spécialiste des Lumières et historien des idées, membre de l'Académie américaine des arts et des sciences, a enseigné aux États- Unis et à l'université de Tel-Aviv.

Download or read book The Skeptical Tradition Around 1800 written by J. van der Zande and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 655 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s the late Charles B. Schmitt and I discussed the fact that so much new research and new interpretations were taking place concerning various areas of modem skepticism that we, as pioneers, ought to organize a conference where these new findings and outlooks could be presented and discussed. Charles and I had both visited the great library at Wolfenbiittel, and were most happy when the Herzog August Bibliothek agreed to host the first conference on the history of skepticism, in 1984 (published as Skepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, ed. R. H. Popkin and Charles B. Schmitt [Wiesbaden, 1987, Wolfenbiitteler For schungen, vol. 35]) Charles and I projected a series of later conferences, the first of which would deal with skepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unfortunately, however, Charles died suddenly in 1986, while lecturing in Padua. Subsequent to his death Constance Blackwell, his companion of many years, established the Foundation for Intellectual History to support research and publica tion on topics in the history of ideas that continued Schmitt's interests. One of the first ventures was to arrange and fund the already planned conference on skepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After many difficulties and problems, the conference was sponsored and funded by the Foundation for Intel lectual History, one of its first public activities. It was held at the lovely facilities of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Wassenaar in 1990.

Download or read book Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Lumi res Aufkl rung written by Sébastien Charles and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Giorgio Tonelli has rightly observed: “the Enlightenment was indeed the Age of Reason but one of the main tasks assigned to reason in that age was to set its own boundaries.” Thus, given the growing number of works devoted to the scepticism of Enlightenment thinkers, historians of philosophy have become increasingly aware of the role played by scepticism in the Eighteenth Century, even in those places once thought to be most given to dogmatism, especially Germany. Nevertheless, the deficiencies of current studies of Enlightenment scepticism are undeniable. In taking up this question in particular, the present volume, which is entirely devoted to the scepticism of the Enlightenment in both its historical and geographical dimensions, seeks to provide readers with a revaluation of the alleged decline of scepticism. At the same time it attempts to resituate the Pyrrhonian heritage within its larger context and to recapture the fundamental issues at stake. The aim is to construct an alternative conception of Enlightenment philosophy, by means of philosophical modernity itself, whose initial stages can be found herein. ​

Download or read book Scepticism in the History of Philosophy written by R.H. Popkin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scepticism in the History of Philosophy is a dialogue between leading Latin American and North American scholars concerned with the history of scepticism from ancient times to present day philosophy. The volume contains interesting discussions by a wide range of philosophers and historians of philosophy. The book should be of great interest to many philosophers who are interested in scepticism. It is unique in presenting in English the work of philosophers from Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile; philosophers not well known to the English speaking world.

Download or read book Skepsis written by Gianni Paganini and published by Vrin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comment les modernes ont-ils ete amenes a considerer sous un nouveau jour le probleme de la certitude et de la connaissance? L'etude proposee ici vise a mettre en evidence le role joue par la renaissance du scepticisme et a montrer comment et par quels detours le phenomene du scepticisme pyrrhonien est devenu l'apparence des modernes. Dans cette histoire, les sceptiques declares n'ont pas seul opere ce travail de reprise et de transformation: une part decisive revient aussi aux adversaires du scepticisme (Campanella, Mersenne, Descartes, mais aussi Hobbes). Le renouveau sceptique ne tire pas son importance de sa seule dimension critique; par ses objections, il a joue un role majeur dans la reforme moderne de la philosophie premiere. Faire de la connaissance un rapport entre le monde interne de la representation et le monde exterieur des choses, a evidemment une origine sceptique. Mais cette conception a son histoire complexe et multiforme. Elle passe notamment par la dissolution de la doctrine aristotelicienne des species (Sanches et Campanella), par la reprise de la conception du phenomene tiree de Sextus (Montaigne et La Mothe Le Vayer), par une reflexion sur les effets destructeurs du scepticisme libertin (Descartes), mais aussi par la conjonction du relativisme de Montaigne et des resultats de la nouvelle science (Hobbes). Ainsi, en rouvrant le dossier sceptique, Bayle peut mener sa critique des presupposes de la philosophie premiere en debat a la fin du XVIIe siecle.

Download or read book Scepticism in the Enlightenment written by R.H. Popkin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with Richard Popkin's essay of 1963, `Scepticism in the Enlightenment', a new investigation into philosophical scepticism of the period was launched. The late Giorgio Tonelli and the late Ezequiel de Olaso examined in great detail the kinds of scepticism developed during the Enlightenment, and the kind of answer to scepticism that was developed by Leibniz. Their original researches and interpretations are of great value and importance. As a result of their work Popkin modified his original claims, as shown in the last two articles in this volume. The book contains an introduction by Popkin and 10 essays, two of which have never been published before. This collection should be of interest to students and scholars of 18th century thought in England, France and Germany.

Download or read book Le Scepticisme n sid me Pascal Kant tudes pour servir l histoire critique du scepticisme ancien et moderne written by Émile Edmond SAISSET and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pierre Daniel Huet 1630 1721 and the Skeptics of his Time written by José R. Maia Neto and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed and scholarly historical and philosophical examination of French scepticism from Descartes to the beginning of the Enlightenment by examining the views of Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630–1721). It shows the crucial role played by Huet in the modification of the early modern sceptical tradition: from a practical perspective closer to ancient scepticism, mostly presented by Montaigne and Charron, to an epistemological and metaphysical perspective strongly influenced by Descartes’s doubt. The book examines and gives original interpretations of the various sceptical (and semi-sceptical) views held in the period and their connections to Huet’s own scepticism. Besides known philosophers such as Descartes, Gassendi, Pascal and Bayle, the book also accesses sceptical views held by secondary figures such as La Mothe Le Vayer and Simon Foucher and others who have not thus far been connected to the sceptical tradition such as Jean-Baptiste du Hamel and Madeleine de Scudéry. The book is useful for scholars in the field of early modern ideas: philosophical, religious and scientific.

Download or read book Academic Scepticism in the Development of Early Modern Philosophy written by Plínio Junqueira Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how far some leading philosophers, from Montaigne to Hume, used Academic Scepticism to build their own brand of scepticism or took it as its main sceptical target. The book offers a detailed view of the main modern key figures, including Sanches, Charron, La Mothe Le Vayer, Bacon, Gassendi, Descartes, Malebranche, Pascal, Foucher, Huet, and Bayle. In addition, it provides a comprehensive assessment of the role of Academic Scepticism in Early Modern philosophy and a complete survey of the period. As a whole, the book offers a basis for a new, balanced assessment of the role played by scepticism in both its forms. Since Richard Popkin's works, there has been considerable interest in the role played by Pyrrhonian Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy. Comparatively, Academic Scepticism was much neglected by scholars, despite some scattered important contributions. Furthermore, a general assessment of the presence of Academic Scepticism in Early Modern Philosophy is lacking. This book fills the void.

Download or read book Sceptical Paths written by Giuseppe Veltri and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sceptical Paths offers a fresh look at key junctions in the history of scepticism. Throughout this collection, key figures are reinterpreted, key arguments are reassessed, lesser-known figures are reintroduced, accepted distinctions are challenged, and new ideas are explored. The historiography of scepticism is usually based on a distinction between ancient and modern. The former is understood as a way of life which focuses on enquiry, whereas the latter is taken to be an epistemological approach which focuses on doubt. The studies in Sceptical Paths not only deepen the understanding of these approaches, but also show how ancient sceptical ideas find their way into modern thought, and modern sceptical ideas are anticipated in ancient thought. Within this state of affairs, the presence of sceptical arguments within Medieval philosophy is reflected in full force, not only enriching the historical narrative, but also introducing another layer to the sceptical discourse, namely its employment within theological settings. The various studies in this book exhibit the rich variety of expression in which scepticism manifests itself within various context and set against various philosophical and religious doctrines, schools, and approaches.

Download or read book Le Scepticisme au XVIe et au XVIIe si cle written by Collectif and published by Albin Michel. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toute une dimension de la modernité s'est constituée en relisant et en transformant les philosophies antiques. Second volet d'une série de trois ouvrages (I. Le Stoïcisme, 1999 ; III. L'Épicurisme, à paraître), ce volume étudie le retour du scepticisme aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Les textes des anciens sceptiques, pyrrhoniens et académiciens, redécouverts par les humanistes, sont alors édités et traduits, leurs thèmes repris et critiqués par Montaigne, Descartes, Gassendi, Hobbes ou Spinoza. Mais la résurrection du scepticisme n'est pas une simple curiosité d'antiquaire : les doctrines classiques sont mises au service de nouvelles questions soulevées par les crises politiques et religieuses, et par la science moderne. Le doute sceptique met-il la foi en danger ou, au contraire, la sert-il en enseignant la faiblesse de la raison humaine et l'inanité des querelles dogmatiques ? Peut-il contribuer à l'essor de la nouvelle physique et du droit naturel ? Ces réflexions sur le doute et l'incertitude ont joué un rôle-clé dans l'élaboration des philosophies de l'individu. Les arguments sur la différence des moeurs ont ainsi pu constituer une première étape dans le développement des sciences humaines. Issu d'un colloque organisé par le C.E.R.P.H.1. (Centre d'études en rhétorique, philosophie et histoire des idées de l'E.N.S. de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud), ce volume réunit les contributions des meilleurs spécialistes français et étrangers.