ISBN:
9789400748101
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XXVII, 381 p, digital)
Series Statement:
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 210
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Scepticism in the eighteenth century
DDC:
180190
Keywords:
Philosophy
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Philosophy (General)
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Humanities
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History
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Konferenzschrift 2009
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Aufklärung
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Skeptizismus
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Geschichte 1700-1820
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Geschichte 1700-1820
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Skeptizismus
Abstract:
Often portrayed as a period bound by the dogma of slavish obedience to the diktats of reason and progress, the Age of Enlightenment is revealed by this profound analysis to have been riddled with skeptical attitudes and characters, even in the Enlightenment's most codified locations, such as Germany. Most philosophers of the period are still widely regarded today as having been dominated by a core triple nexus of optimism, dogmatism and rationalism, and despite a growing body of literature exploring the features of their work that could be regarded as informed by skepticism, this unrivaled survey points up the deficiencies of the former. This volume, then, offers an exploration of the impact of skepticism in both its historic and geographic dimensions, providing readers with a reevaluation of the role played by skepticism itself. The detailed narrative covers every identifiable instance of skepticism in the Eighteenth Century, tracing its influence of thought on major British, French and German philosophers, and including lesser-known figures whose contemporary influence requires their inclusion in a comprehensive study such as this. This volume, then, offers an exploration of the impact of skepticism in both its historic and geographic dimensions, providing readers with a reevaluation of the role played by skepticism itself. The detailed narrative covers every identifiable instance of skepticism in the Eighteenth Century, tracing its influence of thought on major British, French and German philosophers, and including lesser-known figures whose contemporary influence requires their inclusion in a comprehensive study such as this
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Contents; Introduction: What Is Enlightenment Scepticism? A Critical Rereading of Richard Popkin; Bibliography; Part I: Early Eighteenth Century Scepticism: From Bayle to Fontenelle; Bayle and Pyrrhonism: Antinomy, Method, and History; 1 The Method of Antinomy: The Idea of a Critique and Philosophical Reflections; 2 Philosophical Application of the Method of Antinomy; 3 The Method of Antinomy and the History of Philosophy; Bibliography; Fideism, Scepticism, or Free-Thought? The Dispute Between Lamy and Saint-Laurens over Metaphysical Knowledge
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1 (Letters I to IV) The First Question: How Can It Be Proven That God Does Not Annihilate Souls? Saint-Laurens the Christian Rationalist2 (Letters V to X): The Debate Over the Relationship of Faith and Reason, and Over What One Can Know of the Attributes of God. Saint-Laurens the Fideist; 3 (Letters XI to XIV): The Debate Over the Value of Knowledge: Pyrrhonism at the Heart of the Debate; Bibliography; Leibniz's Anti-scepticism; 1 Leibniz and Foucher's Scepticism; 2 Leibniz, the Sceptic, the Misosopher, the Sceptician and Bayle; 3 Leibniz Reads Sextus Empiricus, at Last; Bibliography
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The Protestant Critics of Bayle at the Dawn of the Enlightenment1 The Sources of Error and the Origins of Scepticism; 2 Potential Criteria of Certainty; 3 Conclusion; Bibliography; The "Wise Pyrrhonism" of the Académie Royale Des Sciences of Paris: Natural Light and Obscurity of Nature According to Fontenelle; 1 Physics and Experiment; 2 Systems in Physics; 3 Fontenelle's Conception of Knowledge; Bibliography; Part II: Enlightenment and Scepticism: From Shaftesbury to Enfield; Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Moral Scepticisms; 1 Shaftesbury and Scepticism; 2 Shaftesbury's Reponse
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3 Hutcheson's Moral SenseBibliography; Hume and Bayle on Localization and Perception: A New Source for Hume's Treatise 1.4.5; 1 Localization and Immateriality of the Soul in Bayle's Réponse Aux Questions D'un Provincial; 2 Localization of Perception and Thought in Hume's Treatise: The Implicit Reply to Bayle's Aporias; 3 Bayle's Dilemma and Hume's Trilemma; 4 "Theologians" and "Free-Thinkers" Are Only Apparently Equidistant; 5 Bayle as a Source and the Debate on the "New Hume"; 6 Three Conclusions: Hume's Post-Baylean Philosophy; Bibliography; Hume's Reply to Baylean Scepticism
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1 Bayle and Scepticism2 Hume and Baylean Scepticism; Bibliography; Can We Know Whether Scepticism Is Right or Wrong? Reid's Criticism and Hume's Answer; 1 Reid's Criticism of Scepticism; 1.1 Reid's Limits; 1.2 Reid's Argumentation; 1.3 Theism as Support for Anti-sceptical Philosophy; 2 The Defence of Scepticism; 2.1 Hume's Reaction; 2.2 Scepticism as Genuine Embarrassment in the Treatise; 2.3 Scepticism as "Real-Life"; Bibliography; Enfield's Brucker and Christian Anti-scepticism in Enlightenment Historiography of Philosophy; 1 Confessionalism: Dissenting Unitarianism
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2 Scepticism, Anti-scepticism, and Christian Apologetics
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction, S. Charles, P. Smith -- What is Enlightenment Scepticism? A Critical Rereading of Richard Popkin, S. Charles -- Bayle and Pyrrhonism: Antinomy, Method, and History, P. Smith -- Fideism, Scepticism, or Free-Thought? The Dispute between Lamy and Saint-Laurens about Metaphysical Knowledge, S. Malinowski-Charles -- Leibniz’s Anti-Scepticism, A. Pelletier -- The Protestant Critics of Bayle at the Dawn of the Enlightenment, A. Matytsin -- The ‘Wise Pyrrhonism’ of the Académie Royale des Sciences of Paris: Natural Light and Obscurity of Nature according to Fontenelle, L. Peterschmitt -- Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Moral Scepticisms, P. Kail -- A New Source for Hume’s Treatise: Bayle and the First Half of the Section ‘Of the immateriality of the Soul’, G. Paganini -- Hume’s Reply to Baylean Scepticism, T. Ryan -- How Can we Know if Scepticism is Right or Wrong? Hume and Reid’s Epistemological Answers, C. Etchegaray -- Enfield’s Brucker and Christian Anti-scepticism in Enlightenment Historiography of Philosophy, J -- C. Laursen -- Reasonable Scepticism in the French Enlightenment: some connections between Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Argens, Louis de Beausobre and Voltaire, N. Correard -- Forms and Aims in Voltairean Scepticism, S. Pujol -- D'un scepticisme involontaire à un scepticisme existentiel. Un parcours philosophique dans l'œuvre de Rousseau, M.-A. Nadeau -- An Uneasy Relationship: Atheism and Scepticism in the Late French Enlightenment, A. Kors -- From universal Pyrrhonism to Revolutionary Scepticism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, S. Charles -- Kant’s Criticism and the Legacy of Modern Scepticism, P. Smith -- Maimon, scepticisme et Lumières, I. Radrizzani -- Scepticisme et dialectique des Lumières chez le jeune Hegel, I. Testa -- Hegel on Scepticism and Irony, M. Biscuso -- Fichte et Schopenhauer face au scepticisme de Schulze, E. Brandão -- Building without a Foundation: On the Equating of Enlightenment with Scepticism in Post-Revolutionary French Thought, F. Brahami -- Scepticisme et Lumières selon Lamennais, P. Knee.
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10.1007/978-94-007-4810-1
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