Skepticism in Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Thought
Title | Skepticism in Renaissance and Post-Renaissance Thought PDF eBook |
Author | José Raimundo Maia Neto |
Publisher | Humanities Press International |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
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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.
The Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance
Title | The Skeptics of the Italian Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | John Owen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Philosophy |
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Scepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Title | Scepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Henry Popkin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Enlightenment |
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The Skeptics of the French Renaissance
Title | The Skeptics of the French Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | John Owen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Philosophy |
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Chapter I: Montaigne -- chapter II: Peter Ramus -- chapter III: Charron -- chapter IV: Sanchez -- chapter V: La Mothe-Le-Vayer -- chapter VI: Pascal -- Index to literary references -- Index to subjects
Renaissance Scepticisms
Title | Renaissance Scepticisms PDF eBook |
Author | Gianni Paganini |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2008-11-14 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1402085184 |
Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, Sanches etc.) have given and are still producing significant results on Renaissance scepticism, an overall synthesis comprising the entire period has not been achieved yet. No predetermined idea of that complex historical subject that is Renaissance scepticism underlies this book, and we want to sacrifice the complexity of movements, personalities, tendencies and interpretations to any sort of a priori unity of theme even less. We acknowledge unhesitatingly that we had always thought of “scepticisms” in the plural, and believe that the different contexts (philosophical, religious, cultural) in which these forms grew up must also be taken into account. Furthermore, given the transversal nature and provocative character of the sceptical challenge, this book contains essays also on philosophers who, without being sceptics and sometimes engaged in fighting scepticism, nevertheless took up its challenge. The main authors considered in this book are: Vives, Castellio, Agrippa, Pedro de Valencia, Pico, Sanchez, Montaigne, Charron, Bruno, Bacon, and Campanella. The various essays in the book show the relevance of the philosophical thought of authors little known by the general public and put in new perspective important aspects of the thought of some of the great thinkers of the Renaissance.
Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance
Title | Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Zerba |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 271 |
Release | 2012-07-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110702465X |
An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance.
Reappraisals in Renaissance Thought
Title | Reappraisals in Renaissance Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Charles B. Schmitt |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
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This third collection of Charles Schmitt's articles complements the previous two and consists largely of studies published in the last few years of his life. It therefore contains his mature reflections on central issues in the fields of Renaissance philosophy and science, as well as important new research findings. The main subjects are Aristotelianism and Scepticism, and the history of medicine and natural philosophy. Some articles assess the place of traditional elements in the work of major scientific innovators, such as Galileo or Harvey, others make available new sources of documentation and show the significance of writings others had not deigned to look at. Charles Schmitt's insistence that Renaissance thought should be reconstructed in terms faithful to the value systems of the period also led to an increasing interest in the socio-economic context of philosophical speculation, reflected here in the studies on the University of Pisa in the 16th century.