Download or read book The Christianization of Pyrrhonism written by J.R. Maia Neto and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine's christianization of Plato and Thomas Aquinas's of Aristotle provided the two main foundations of medieval Judeo- Christian philosophy. In The Christianization of Pyrrhonism, José R. Maia Neto shows that Greek scepticism played a similar role in the development of a major strand of modern religious thought. From the Jansenist reaction of Molinism in the early 17th century to Shestov's resistance to the arrival of Kantian enlightenment in Russia in the late 19th century, Greek scepticism was reconstructed in terms of Christian doctrines and used against major secular philosophers who posed threats to religion. At the same time, the ancient sceptics' practical stance was attacked in order that it does not constitute a viable alternative to the modern secular philosophies. The resulting Christianized Pyrrhonism would be the basis for a genuine Christian or Biblical thought, for the first time emancipated from the rationalist assumptions and methods of Greek philosophy. The Christianization of Pyrrhonism is extremely valuable for those interested in the modern developments of ancient scepticism, in the relations between religious and philosophical ideas in modernity, and for scholars and the general public interested in Pascal, Kierkegaard and Shestov.
Download or read book The Christianization of Pyrrhonism written by J. R. Maia Neto and published by . This book was released on 1963-01-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The High Road to Pyrrhonism written by Richard Henry Popkin and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to his classic study The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Descartes, Popkin examines the important role played by the revival and reformulation of classical scepticism in eighteenth-century philosophy.
Download or read book The History of Scepticism written by Richard Henry Popkin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. 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 Scepticism clandestinity and free thinking written by Gianni Paganini and published by Honoré Champion. This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion Based on Psychology and History written by Auguste Sabatier and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth Century French Philosophy written by José R. Maia Neto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first systematic account of Pierre Charron’s influence among the major French philosophers in the period (1601-1662). It shows that Charron’s Wisdom was one of the main sources of inspiration of Pierre Gassendi’s first published book, the Exercitationes adversus aristoteleos. It sheds new light on La Mothe Le Vayer, who is usually viewed as a major free thinker. By showing that he was a follower of Charron, La Mothe emerges neither as a skeptical apologist nor as a disguised libertine, as combatting superstition but not as irreligious. The book shows the close presence of Charron in the preambles of Descartes’ philosophy and that the cogito is mainly based on the moral Academic self-assurance of Charron’s wise man. This interpretation reverses the standard view of Descartes’ relation to skepticism. Once this skepticism is recognized to be Charron’s Academic one, it is seen not as the target but as the source of the cogito. Pascal is the last major philosopher for whom Charron’s wisdom is crucially relevant. Montaigne and Descartes influenced, respectively, Pascal’s view of the Pyrrhonian skeptic and of the skeptical main arguments. The book shows that Charron’s Academic skeptical wise man is one of the main targets of his projected apology for Christianity, since he considered him as a threat and counter-example of the kind of Christian view of human beings he believed. By restoring the historical philosophical relevance of Charron in early modern philosophy and arguing for the relevance of Academic skepticism in the period, this book opens a new research program to early modern scholars and will be valuable for those interested in the history of philosophy, French literature and religion.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Philosophy written by Donald M. Borchert and published by Thomson Gale/MacMillan Reference USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, covering entries from "Oakeshott, Michael" to "Presupposition," presents articles on Eastern and Western philosophies, medical and scientific ethics, the Holocaust, terrorism, censorship, biographical entries, and much more.
Download or read book Platonism and Christianity in the Work of Paul Elmer More written by William Hollingsworth Mayfield and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Skepticism written by Richard Henry Popkin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology contains the principal texts of the skeptical tradition from its origins in antiquity to contemporary philosophy. Selections include the writings of both well-known and lesser-known but influential philosophers of the Western tradition who either advanced skeptical views or dealt with skeptical issues for other philosophical or religious purposes. An introduction on the origins, kinds, and significance of philosophical skepticism puts the various readings in the context of the history of Western philosophy. The editors have also added brief discussions of each philosopher and text included in the anthology, plus a selected bibliography, which lists the main secondary literature on ancient, modern, and contemporary skepticism. This collection is ideal for introductory philosophy courses and courses on intellectual history, or for any reader interested in an influential school of thought, which challenges the nature of philosophy itself.
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Download or read book The Author as Plagiarist written by João Cezar de Castro Rocha and published by Tagus Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at how Machado de Assis affirms his uniqueness through the role of a reflective reader who eventually becomes a self-reflective author, whose text is primarily the written memory of his private library
Download or read book Skepticism in Renaissance and Post Renaissance Thought written by José Raimundo Maia Neto and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 2004 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in the Journal of the History of Philosophy book series (JHP Books) is devoted to the resurgence of skepticism in the Renaissance and after. It contains eight original essays by historians of early modern philosophy from Europe and North and South America, with concluding remarks by Richard H. Popkin, who reviews fifty years of scholarship on the history of early modern skepticism and evaluates its present stage. The essays uncover new material relevant to the history of skepticism in the period and propose new interpretations of the nature, role, and influence of skepticism from Montaigne to Berkeley. The contributors discuss such important figures as Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Hobbes, Pierre Bayle, Henry More, René Descartes, Pierre-Daniel Huet, Pierre Gassendi, and George Berkeley. By indicating a number of new problems brought about by the early modern philosophers’ engagement with and reaction to skepticism, the authors of the important essays in this volume make a major contribution to our understanding of ancient and modern skepticism.
Download or read book The Letters of Dominique Chaix Botanist cur written by Dominique Chaix and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first publication of 170 letters written by the Abbe Dominique Chaiz to Dr. Dominique Villars between 1772 and 1799. The two were collaborating on the publication of the first flora for the old province of Dauphine. Their letters reveal the uncertainties of plant classification in the later 18th century as well as the penetration of the Enlightenment into a remote region of France, the enthusiasms, anxieties, and perils of rural clerical life during the French Revolution, and (occasionally) evidence about the deforestation of the mountains. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Christian Theology written by Jean-Yves Lacoste and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
