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UNINA9910449762503321 |
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Popkin Richard H (Richard Henry), <1923-2005, > |
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The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle / / Richard H. Popkin |
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New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003 |
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1-280-45293-5 |
0-19-802671-4 |
0-19-535539-3 |
1-4237-6125-1 |
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[Revised and expanded edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (440 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Skepticism - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Rev. and expanded ed. of: The history of scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza. Rev. and expanded ed. c1979. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Introduction; 1 The Intellectual Crisis of the Reformation; 2 The Revival of Greek Scepticism in the Sixteenth Century; 3 Michel de Montaigne and the Nouveaux Pyrrhoniens; 4 The Influence of the New Pyrrhonism; 5 The Libertins Érudits; 6 The Counterattack Begins; 7 Constructive or Mitigated Scepticism; 8 Herbert of Cherbury and Jean de Silhon; 9 Descartes: Conqueror of Scepticism; 10 Descartes: Sceptique Malgré Lui; 11 Some Spiritual and Religious Answers to Scepticism and Descartes: Henry More, Blaise Pascal, and Quietists |
12 Political and Practical Answers to Scepticism: Thomas Hobbes13 Philosophers of the Royal Society: Wilkins, Boyle, and Glanvill; 14 Biblical Criticism and the Beginning of Religious Scepticism; 15 Spinoza's Scepticism and Antiscepticism; 16 Scepticism and Late Seventeenth-Century Metaphysics; 17 The New Sceptics: Simon Foucher and Pierre-Daniel Huet; 18 Pierre Bayle: Superscepticism and the Beginnings of Enlightenment Dogmatism; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Y; Z |
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In this third updated edition of a classic book first published in 1960, |
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there are three new chapters, one on Savonarola, one on Henry More and Ralph Cudworth, and one on Pascal. This authoritative treatment of the theme of scepticism and its historical impacts should appeal to scholars and students of early modern history |
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UNINA9910782409503321 |
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Jewett A. C |
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An American engineer in Afghanistan / / from the letters and notes of A.C. Jewett ; ed. by Marjorie Jewett Bell |
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Minneapolis : , : Univ. of Minnesota Press, , [1948] |
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1 online resource (354 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Afghanistan Social life and customs |
Afghanistan Description and travel |
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Materiale a stampa |
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CONTENTS; ON THE ROAD TO KABUL; KABUL; JABAL-US-SIRAJ, MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT; THE OLD MAN WITH THE WHITE BEARD; WINTER QUARTERS; A TELEPHONE MESSAGE; A GUEST IS A FRIEND FOR THREE DAYS; FROM THE TOWER ROOM OF THE OLD FORT; SPECIAL RUNNERS CARRY THE AMIR'S DAK; THE RURAL KOHISTANIS; IDLING AT BABER SARAI; ABDUR RAHMAN, THE DURANI CHIEF; IN THE SERVICE OF HIS MAJESTY; THE BETTER MOON; THE WAY OF A KING AT THE KABUL COURT; A FIRMAN FOR LEAVE; JALALABAD; THE TURKISH HAJJI; ON LEAVE IN INDIA; THE ELEPHANT CARTS ARE COMING; THE SPARROW AND THE WISDOM OF SA'DI; THIEVES AND BUDMASHES |
THE LIGHT OF THE NATION AND THE FAITH; WAITING FOR LEAVE; THE PUNJAB BANKING COMPANY, LIMITED; KOHISTAN BOUND; THE PAST IS PAST; THE BROWN MAN'S BURDEN; FROM THE KOTI SETAREH ENCLOSURE; LETTERS TO DAVID FAIRCHILD; FED BY THE SNOWS OF THE HINDU KUSH; THIS YEAR WAS AS MUCH AS FIFTY; FOOL MOHAMMAD BLOWS THE BELLOWS; KAFIR IDOLS; UNCAUGHT SPARROWS ARE CHEAP; WE GET UP WITH THE LARK; KABUL OF RECENT TIMES; A LAMP IS LIT; |
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THE CODE OF THE KINGDOM; KISMET; TAMAM SHUD; GLOSSARY |
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An American Engineer in Afghanistan was first published in 1948. The legend of Afghanistan as ""The Forbidden Country"" grew chiefly from a warning of the British Indian Government which once guarded the Afghan frontier north of the Khyber Pass -- ""It is absolutely forbidden to cross this border into Afghanistan."" A glance at the endsheet map in this book will recall its strategic position in the Middle East. When A. C. Jewett entered in 1911 with an escort supplied for his safe transportation to Kabul, he was the first American permitted to live in the country since 1880. |
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