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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...
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Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / 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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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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