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The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle

Richard H. Popkin
- 01 Dec 2005 - 
- Vol. 36, Iss: 4, pp 1204
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In the sixteenth century, the resurgence of Greek Scepticism in the Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was studied in the work of as discussed by the authors, where some answers to the question "What are some spiritual and religious answers to scepticism?" were given.
Abstract
1: The Intellectual Crisis of the Reformation 2: The Revival of Greek Scepticism in the Sixteenth Century 3: Michel de Montaigne and the Nouveaux Pyrrhoniens 4: The Influence of the New Pyrrhonism 5: The Libertins Erudits 6: The Counter-Attack Begins 7: Constructive or Mitigated Scepticism 8: Herbert of Cherbury and Jean de Silhon 9: Descartes: Conqueror of Scepticism 10: Descartes: Sceptique Malgre Lui 11: Some Spiritual and Religious Answers to Scepticism and Descartes: Henry More, Blaise Pascal and the Quietists 12: Political and Practical Answers to Scepticism: Thomas Hobbes 13: Philosophers of the Royal Society: Wilkins, Boyle, and Glanvill 14: Biblical Criticism and the Beginnings of Religious Scepticism 15: Spinoza's Scepticism and Anti-Scepticism 16: Scepticism and Late Seventeenth-Century Metaphysics 17: The New Sceptics: Simon Foucher and Pierre Daniel Huet 18: Pierre Bayle: Super-Scepticism and the Beginnings of the Enlightenment Dogmatism

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