The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to BayleOxford University Press, 20 mrt 2003 - 440 pagina's 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. |
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2 The Revival of Greek Scepticism in the Sixteenth Century | 17 |
3 Michel de Montaigne and the Nouveaux Pyrrhoniens | 44 |
4 The Influence of the New Pyrrhonism | 64 |
5 The Libertins Érudits | 80 |
6 The Counterattack Begins | 99 |
7 Constructive or Mitigated Scepticism | 112 |
8 Herbert of Cherbury and Jean de Silhon | 128 |
Thomas Hobbes | 189 |
Wilkins Boyle and Glanvill | 208 |
14 Biblical Criticism and the Beginning of Religious Scepticism | 219 |
15 Spinozas Scepticism and Antiscepticism | 239 |
16 Scepticism and Late SeventeenthCentury Metaphysics | 254 |
Simon Foucher and PierreDaniel Huet | 274 |
Superscepticism and the Beginnings of Enlightenment Dogmatism | 283 |
Notes | 303 |
Conqueror of Scepticism | 143 |
Sceptique Malgré Lui | 158 |
Henry More Blaise Pascal and Quietists | 174 |
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