Skepticism In Renaissance And Post Renaissance Thought
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Skepticism In Renaissance And Post Renaissance Thought
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Author : José Raimundo Maia Neto
language : en
Publisher: Humanities Press International
Release Date : 2004
Skepticism In Renaissance And Post Renaissance Thought written by José Raimundo Maia Neto and has been published by Humanities Press International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
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
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Author : John Owen
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-09-20
The Skeptics Of The Italian Renaissance written by John Owen and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with categories.
This volume, which is uniform with the "Skeptics of the French Renaissance" by the same author, may be considered in some sort a continuation of his "Evenings with the Skeptics," although quite independent of that work. In the author's view skepticism implies the function of a natural energy, and hence discharges offices which are akin in all periods, especially where dogma is concerned. The true skeptic he defines as the seeker after ultimate truth in the absolute, and hence thinks that skepticism will claim a larger sphere in the future than in the past, not only in theology, but in science and philosophy. The Weekly Review says: "The plan of the work is to give formal essays on some of the important divisions of the subject, followed by philosophical discussions in the form of dialogues. Under one aspect the movement of the fourteenth and following centuries in Southern Europe was a revival of paganism. The lights of the Church occupied themselves with Latin and Greek writers instead of with the Fathers. This eager study of the classics could not fail to loosen the bands of bigotry a little. Men could not read Ciceo for his style merely and not get some contact with his ideas. The ideas may not be very valuable intrinsically, but they were different from those of Italian readers of the thirteenth century. Another cause for the emancipation of the intellect was the contact with a civilization, in many respects higher, brought about by the Crusades. Still another cause is to be found in the dissensions between Pope and Kaiser, between the spiritual and secular powers, and still more in the intestine divisions of the Papacy itself. "The longest and on the whole most interesting essays are those on Giordano Bruno and Vanini; partly perhaps, at least in the case of the former, owing to the vigor of thought, partly on account of the tragical death of the thinkers discussed." The London Athenaum concludes a lengthy review with the words: "The most characteristic featuie of the book, it may be noted in conclusion, is the account given of anticipations of the Renaissance in the Middle Ages. Anticipations of later thought in the Renaissance itself are less dwelt on. What is sometimes called the 'transition period' is, for the author, a last term. In the distinctively modern development of philosophy he seems to be less interested. In spite of his stress on 'skeptical' inquiry, it is each thinker's conception of the universe as a whole that he cares about rather than his critical scrutiny of the principles of knowledge. This last inquiry, as has often been said, is more distinctively modern. What distinguishes the Renaissance is the effort to attain again a comprehensive theory of the universe. The result might at the time be disintegrating rather than reconstructive; but the effort itself, as Mr. Owen sees clearly enough in the case of Bruno, was one of synthesis more than of analysis." -Book Reviews, Vol. 1
Pierre Daniel Huet 1630 1721 And The Skeptics Of His Time
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Author : José R. Maia Neto
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-06-28
Pierre Daniel Huet 1630 1721 And The Skeptics Of His Time written by José R. Maia Neto and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-28 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Academic Skepticism In Seventeenth Century French Philosophy
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Author : José R. Maia Neto
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-07-10
Academic Skepticism In Seventeenth Century French Philosophy written by José R. Maia Neto and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-10 with Philosophy categories.
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.
The Skeptics Of The French Renaissance
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Author : John Owen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
The Skeptics Of The French Renaissance written by John Owen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Philosophy categories.
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
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Author : Gianni Paganini
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-11-14
Renaissance Scepticisms written by Gianni Paganini and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-14 with Philosophy categories.
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.
The Skeptics Of The Italian Renaissance
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Author : John Owen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
The Skeptics Of The Italian Renaissance written by John Owen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Philosophy categories.
Scepticism From The Renaissance To The Enlightenment
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Author : Richard Henry Popkin
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Scepticism From The Renaissance To The Enlightenment written by Richard Henry Popkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Enlightenment categories.
Doubt And Skepticism In Antiquity And The Renaissance
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Author : Michelle Zerba
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-09
Doubt And Skepticism In Antiquity And The Renaissance written by Michelle Zerba and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-09 with Philosophy categories.
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of doubt in works by Homer, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Cicero, Machiavelli, Shakespeare and Montaigne. Based on close analysis of literary and philosophical texts by these important authors, Michelle Zerba argues that doubt is a defining experience in antiquity and the Renaissance, one that constantly challenges the limits of thought and representation. The wide-ranging discussion considers issues that run the gamut from tragic loss to comic bombast, from psychological collapse to skeptical dexterity and from solitary reflection to political improvisation in civic contexts and puts Greek and Roman treatments of doubt into dialogue not only with sixteenth-century texts but with contemporary works as well. Using the past to engage questions of vital concern to our time, Zerba demonstrates that although doubt sometimes has destructive consequences, it can also be conducive to tolerance, discovery and conversation across sociopolitical boundaries.
The Skeptics Of The Italian Renaissance
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Author : John Owen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
The Skeptics Of The Italian Renaissance written by John Owen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Philosophy, Italian categories.