Scepticism In The Eighteenth Century Enlightenment Lumires Aufklrung
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9789400748095
Description: The Age of Enlightenment has often been portrayed as a dogmatic period on account of the veritable worship of reason and progress that characterized Eighteenth Century thinkers. Even today the philosophes are considered to have been completely dominated in their thinking by an optimism that leads to dogmatism and ultimately rationalism. However, on closer inspection, such a conception seems untenable, not only after careful study of the impact of scepticism on numerous intellectual domains in the period, but also as a result of a better understanding of the character of the Enlightenment.