Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries /
Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries /
ed. by Gianni Paganini, John Christian Laursen.
- 1 online resource (304 p.) : 1 figure
- UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series .
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Neither Philosophy nor Politics? The Ancient Pyrrhonian Approach to Everday Life -- 2. La Mothe Le Vayer and Political Skepticism -- 3. Hobbes and the French Skeptics -- 4. Questionnnements sceptiques et politiques de la fable: les « autres mondes » du libertinage érudit -- 5. Obeying the Laws and Customs of the Country: Living in Disorder and Barbarity. The Powerlessness of Political Skepticism According to the Discours sceptiques (1657) of Samuel Sorbière -- 6. Bernard Mandeville’s Skeptical Political Philosophy -- 7. David Hume: Skepticism in Politics? -- 8. Denis Diderot and the Politics of Materialist Skepticism -- 9. Rousseau: Philosophical and Religious Skepticism and Political Dogmatism -- 10. Skepticism and Political Economy: Smith, Hume, and Rousseau -- 11. Can a Skeptic Be a Reformer? Skepticism in Morals and Politics during the Enlightenment: The Case of Voltaire -- 12. From General Skepticism to Complete Dogmatism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville -- 13. Carl Friedrich Stäudlin’s Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany -- Contributors -- Index
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In this collection, thirteen distinguished contributors examine the influence of the ancient skeptical philosophy of Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus on early modern political thought. Classical skepticism argues that in the absence of certainty one must either suspend judgment and live by habit or act on the basis of probability rather than certainty. In either case, one must reject dogmatic confidence in politics and philosophy.Surveying the use of skepticism in works by Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, Smith, and Kant, among others, the essays in Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries demonstrate the pervasive impact of skepticism on the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. This volume is not just an authoritative account of skepticism’s importance from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution, it is also the basis for understanding skepticism’s continuing political implications.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442649217 9781442619722
10.3138/9781442619722 doi
Skepticism--Political aspects--History--17th century.
Skepticism--Political aspects--History--18th century.
Skepticism--Political aspects--History--17th century.
Skeptics (Greek philosophy).
HISTORY / Ancient / General.
B837 / .S567 2015
149/.73
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Neither Philosophy nor Politics? The Ancient Pyrrhonian Approach to Everday Life -- 2. La Mothe Le Vayer and Political Skepticism -- 3. Hobbes and the French Skeptics -- 4. Questionnnements sceptiques et politiques de la fable: les « autres mondes » du libertinage érudit -- 5. Obeying the Laws and Customs of the Country: Living in Disorder and Barbarity. The Powerlessness of Political Skepticism According to the Discours sceptiques (1657) of Samuel Sorbière -- 6. Bernard Mandeville’s Skeptical Political Philosophy -- 7. David Hume: Skepticism in Politics? -- 8. Denis Diderot and the Politics of Materialist Skepticism -- 9. Rousseau: Philosophical and Religious Skepticism and Political Dogmatism -- 10. Skepticism and Political Economy: Smith, Hume, and Rousseau -- 11. Can a Skeptic Be a Reformer? Skepticism in Morals and Politics during the Enlightenment: The Case of Voltaire -- 12. From General Skepticism to Complete Dogmatism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville -- 13. Carl Friedrich Stäudlin’s Diagnosis of the Political Effects of Skepticism in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany -- Contributors -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
In this collection, thirteen distinguished contributors examine the influence of the ancient skeptical philosophy of Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus on early modern political thought. Classical skepticism argues that in the absence of certainty one must either suspend judgment and live by habit or act on the basis of probability rather than certainty. In either case, one must reject dogmatic confidence in politics and philosophy.Surveying the use of skepticism in works by Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, Smith, and Kant, among others, the essays in Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries demonstrate the pervasive impact of skepticism on the intellectual landscape of early modern Europe. This volume is not just an authoritative account of skepticism’s importance from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution, it is also the basis for understanding skepticism’s continuing political implications.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442649217 9781442619722
10.3138/9781442619722 doi
Skepticism--Political aspects--History--17th century.
Skepticism--Political aspects--History--18th century.
Skepticism--Political aspects--History--17th century.
Skeptics (Greek philosophy).
HISTORY / Ancient / General.
B837 / .S567 2015
149/.73