The Return of Scepticism
Subtitle: From Hobbes and Descartes to Bayle (International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781402013775
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; Philosophy; Science/Mathematics; General; History & Surveys - Modern; History & Theory - General; Philosophy / Modern; Political Science-History & Theory - General; Religion-General; Social Science / Reference; Skepticism
First sentence: The relationship between Hobbes and scepticism was, right from the beginning, the subject of controversy: while the philosopher was still alive, Mersenne felt obliged to warn Sorbiere against the illusion of finding "his" epoche and "Scepticae naeniae" in De cive, whereas from that book he could have learned "dogmaticam firmissimis innixam fulcris".