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Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Hardcover)
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Skepticism and Political Thought in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Hardcover)
Series: UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series
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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.
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