Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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‘The volume features thorough, well documented, and wide-ranging scholarship on both primary and secondary texts, drawing from literature, political treatises, moral theory and of course philosophy.’
» Kristen Irwin, International Journal for the Study of Skepticism vol 7:2017
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. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Toronto Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781442649217
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«
‘The volume features thorough, well documented, and wide-ranging scholarship on both primary and secondary texts, drawing from literature, political treatises, moral theory and of course philosophy.’
» Kristen Irwin, International Journal for the Study of Skepticism vol 7:2017