Scepticism in the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment, Lumir̈es, Aufklr̃ung

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 Ge...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Charles, Sb̌astien. (Editor), J. Smith, Pln̕io. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des iděs, 210
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4810-1
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<U+0019>s Anti-Scepticism, A. Pelletier
  • The Protestant Critics of Bayle at the Dawn of the Enlightenment, A. Matytsin
  • The <U+0018>Wise Pyrrhonism<U+0019> of the Acadm̌ie 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<U+0019>s Treatise: Bayle and the First Half of the Section <U+0018>Of the immateriality of the Soul<U+0019>, G. Paganini
  • Hume<U+0019>s Reply to Baylean Scepticism, T. Ryan
  • How Can we Know if Scepticism is Right or Wrong? Hume and Reid<U+0019>s Epistemological Answers, C. Etchegaray
  • Enfield<U+0019>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<U+0019>Argens, Louis de Beausobre and Voltaire, N. Correard
  • Forms and Aims in Voltairean Scepticism, S. Pujol
  • D'un scepticisme involontaire ̉un scepticisme existentiel. Un parcours philosophique dans l'Suvre 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<U+0019>s Criticism and the Legacy of Modern Scepticism, P. Smith
  • Maimon, scepticisme et Lumir̈es, I. Radrizzani
  • Scepticisme et dialectique des Lumir̈es chez le jeune Hegel, I. Testa
  • Hegel on Scepticism and Irony, M. Biscuso
  • Fichte et Schopenhauer face au scepticisme de Schulze, E. Brandô
  • Building without a Foundation: On the Equating of Enlightenment with Scepticism in Post-Revolutionary French Thought, F. Brahami
  • Scepticisme et Lumir̈es selon Lamennais, P. Knee.