The alternative tradition [[electronic resource] ] : religion and the rejection of religion in the ancient world / / James Thrower
| The alternative tradition [[electronic resource] ] : religion and the rejection of religion in the ancient world / / James Thrower |
| Autore | Thrower James <1936-1999.> |
| Edizione | [Reprint 2011] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | The Hague ; ; New York, : Mouton Pub., c1980 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
| Disciplina | 291/.044 |
| Collana | Religion and society |
| Soggetto topico |
Skepticism - History
Agnosticism - History Atheism - History Civilization, Ancient |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-11-080417-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. CONTENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. INDIA -- 3. CHINA -- 4. GREECE -- 5. ROME -- 6. APPENDIX -- 7. POSTSCRIPT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- INDEX |
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Thrower James <1936-1999.>
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The alternative tradition : religion and the rejection of religion in the ancient world / / James Thrower
| The alternative tradition : religion and the rejection of religion in the ancient world / / James Thrower |
| Autore | Thrower James <1936-1999.> |
| Edizione | [Reprint 2011] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | The Hague ; ; New York, : Mouton Pub., c1980 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Disciplina | 291/.044 |
| Collana | Religion and society |
| Soggetto topico |
Skepticism - History
Agnosticism - History Atheism - History Civilization, Ancient |
| ISBN | 3-11-080417-4 |
| Classificazione | BE 1550 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. CONTENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. INDIA -- 3. CHINA -- 4. GREECE -- 5. ROME -- 6. APPENDIX -- 7. POSTSCRIPT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790216703321 |
Thrower James <1936-1999.>
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Doubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance / / Michelle Zerba [[electronic resource]]
| Doubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance / / Michelle Zerba [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Zerba Michelle <1953-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 121/.509 |
| Soggetto topico |
Belief and doubt - History
Skepticism - History |
| ISBN |
1-139-54034-3
1-107-23204-X 1-139-17588-2 1-283-52219-5 1-139-52755-X 9786613834645 1-139-52635-9 1-139-53221-9 1-139-53102-6 1-139-52874-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part 1: "Farewell the tranquil mind" : tragic doubt in Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello. Achilles' doubt and heroism-at-one-remove in Homer's Iliad ; Moral doubt and the claims of pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes ; "Do as if for surety" : doubt and delusions of certainty in Shakespeare's Othello -- Part 2: Comic skepticism and polytropic strategies in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As you like it. Wandering Odysseus, Pyrrhonist Penelope, and the return from alienation ; Skeptical inversions of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria and Shakespeare's As you like it -- Part 3: Skepticism, politics, and rhetoric in the works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne. Skeptical constructions of identity in Roman and Renaissance humanism : the useful, the sublime, and the primitivist ; Academic skepticism and Cicero's Republican politics ; A Ciceronian Machiavelli ; Montaigne's Pyrrhonist politics. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Doubt & Skepticism in Antiquity & the Renaissance |
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Doubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance / / Michelle Zerba [[electronic resource]]
| Doubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance / / Michelle Zerba [[electronic resource]] |
| Autore | Zerba Michelle <1953-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 121/.509 |
| Soggetto topico |
Belief and doubt - History
Skepticism - History |
| ISBN |
1-139-54034-3
1-107-23204-X 1-139-17588-2 1-283-52219-5 1-139-52755-X 9786613834645 1-139-52635-9 1-139-53221-9 1-139-53102-6 1-139-52874-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part 1: "Farewell the tranquil mind" : tragic doubt in Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello. Achilles' doubt and heroism-at-one-remove in Homer's Iliad ; Moral doubt and the claims of pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes ; "Do as if for surety" : doubt and delusions of certainty in Shakespeare's Othello -- Part 2: Comic skepticism and polytropic strategies in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As you like it. Wandering Odysseus, Pyrrhonist Penelope, and the return from alienation ; Skeptical inversions of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria and Shakespeare's As you like it -- Part 3: Skepticism, politics, and rhetoric in the works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne. Skeptical constructions of identity in Roman and Renaissance humanism : the useful, the sublime, and the primitivist ; Academic skepticism and Cicero's Republican politics ; A Ciceronian Machiavelli ; Montaigne's Pyrrhonist politics. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Doubt & Skepticism in Antiquity & the Renaissance |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790489103321 |
Zerba Michelle <1953->
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Doubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance / / Michelle Zerba
| Doubt and skepticism in antiquity and the Renaissance / / Michelle Zerba |
| Autore | Zerba Michelle <1953-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 121/.509 |
| Soggetto topico |
Belief and doubt - History
Skepticism - History |
| ISBN |
1-139-54034-3
1-107-23204-X 1-139-17588-2 1-283-52219-5 1-139-52755-X 9786613834645 1-139-52635-9 1-139-53221-9 1-139-53102-6 1-139-52874-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part 1: "Farewell the tranquil mind" : tragic doubt in Homer's Iliad, Sophocles' Philoctetes, and Shakespeare's Othello. Achilles' doubt and heroism-at-one-remove in Homer's Iliad ; Moral doubt and the claims of pity in Sophocles' Philoctetes ; "Do as if for surety" : doubt and delusions of certainty in Shakespeare's Othello -- Part 2: Comic skepticism and polytropic strategies in Homer's Odyssey, Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria, and Shakespeare's As you like it. Wandering Odysseus, Pyrrhonist Penelope, and the return from alienation ; Skeptical inversions of gender and genre in Aristophanes' Women of the Thesmophoria and Shakespeare's As you like it -- Part 3: Skepticism, politics, and rhetoric in the works of Cicero, Machiavelli, and Montaigne. Skeptical constructions of identity in Roman and Renaissance humanism : the useful, the sublime, and the primitivist ; Academic skepticism and Cicero's Republican politics ; A Ciceronian Machiavelli ; Montaigne's Pyrrhonist politics. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Doubt & Skepticism in Antiquity & the Renaissance |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910955522103321 |
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| Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012 | ||
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The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle / / Richard Popkin
| The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle / / Richard Popkin |
| Autore | Popkin Richard H (Richard Henry), <1923-2005, > |
| Edizione | [Revised and expanded edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 pages) |
| Disciplina | 149/.73 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | PopkinRichard H <1923-> (Richard Henry) |
| Collana | Oxford scholarship online |
| Soggetto topico |
Skepticism - History
Philosophy |
| ISBN |
0-19-773050-7
1-280-45293-5 0-19-802671-4 0-19-535539-3 1-4237-6125-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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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The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle / / Richard H. Popkin
| The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle / / Richard H. Popkin |
| Autore | Popkin Richard H (Richard Henry), <1923-2005, > |
| Edizione | [Revised and expanded edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Disciplina | 149/.73 |
| Soggetto topico | Skepticism - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-45293-5
0-19-802671-4 0-19-535539-3 1-4237-6125-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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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Popkin Richard H (Richard Henry), <1923-2005, >
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The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle / / Richard H. Popkin
| The history of scepticism : from Savonarola to Bayle / / Richard H. Popkin |
| Autore | Popkin Richard H (Richard Henry), <1923-2005, > |
| Edizione | [Revised and expanded edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Disciplina | 149/.73 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | PopkinRichard H <1923-2005.> (Richard Henry) |
| Soggetto topico | Skepticism - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-773050-7
1-280-45293-5 0-19-802671-4 0-19-535539-3 1-4237-6125-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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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Pyrrhonism past and present : inquiry, disagreement, self-knowledge, and rationality / / Diego E. Machuca
| Pyrrhonism past and present : inquiry, disagreement, self-knowledge, and rationality / / Diego E. Machuca |
| Autore | Machuca Diego E. |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (290 pages) |
| Disciplina | 149.73 |
| Collana | Synthese Library |
| Soggetto topico |
Skepticism
Skepticism - History |
| ISBN |
9783030912109
9783030912093 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Motivation, the Approach, the Plan -- 1.1 Skepticism and Psychological Constitution -- 1.2 Taking Skepticism Seriously -- 1.3 Aims and Approach -- 1.4 Layout of the Book -- References -- Part I: Pyrrhonism Past -- Chapter 2: Pyrrhonian Inquiry -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Skeptic as Inquirer -- 2.3 Can the Skeptic Search for Truth? -- 2.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Argumentation and Persuasiveness -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Argumentative Therapy -- 3.3 Truth-Directed Inquiry -- 3.4 Two Kinds of Persuasiveness -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: The Agrippan Modes and the Challenge of Disagreement -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Five Modes -- 4.3 Ad Hominem Argumentation and Non-doxastic Assent -- 4.4 Questionable Assumptions -- 4.5 The Argument from Possible Disagreement -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Pyrrhonian Rationality -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Versions of the LNC -- 5.3 The Skeptic's Alleged Commitment to the LNC -- 5.4 The Skeptic's Suspension About the LNC -- 5.5 The Skeptic's Observance of the LNC -- 5.6 Suspension as a Psychological Reaction -- 5.7 The Skeptic's Use of Reason -- 5.8 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Pyrrhonism Present -- Chapter 6: The Epistemology of Disagreement -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Overview of the Debate -- 6.3 Factualism -- 6.4 Evidence -- 6.5 Evidence Assessment, First-Person Perspective, and Self-Trust -- 6.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: Personal Information as Symmetry Breaker -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Personal Information and High Degree of Justified Confidence -- 7.3 Real-Life Disputes and Unpossessed Information -- 7.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Limits of Self-Knowledge -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Overconfidence -- 8.3 The Bias Blind Spot -- 8.4 Self-Knowledge Through Introspection.
8.5 Confabulation -- 8.6 Objections and Replies -- 8.7 Conclusion -- Appendix: Sextus and Galen on the Pyrrhonist's Knowledge of His Own Affections -- References -- Chapter 9: The Disagreeing About Disagreement Argument -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Self-Defeat Charge -- 9.3 Conciliationist Replies to the DDA -- 9.4 A Neo-Pyrrhonian Response -- 9.5 Objections and Replies -- 9.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10: The Nature of Rationality -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Conceptions of Rationality and the "Why Be Rational?" Question -- 10.3 Is the Neo-Pyrrhonist (Ir)rational? -- 10.4 LNC, Modus Ponens, and Modus Tollens -- 10.5 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 11: Coda -- 11.1 Summary -- 11.2 Does Pyrrhonism Have Epistemic or Prudential Value? -- Reference -- Bibliography -- I. Editions and Translations -- II. Secondary Literature -- Index Locorum -- Name Index -- Subject Index. |
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Scepticism in the eighteenth century : enlightenment, lumieres, aufklarung / / Sebastien Charles, Plinio J. Smith, editors
| Scepticism in the eighteenth century : enlightenment, lumieres, aufklarung / / Sebastien Charles, Plinio J. Smith, editors |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Springer, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
| Disciplina | 149.73 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CharlesSebastien
SmithPlinio J (Plinio Junqueira) |
| Collana | International archives of the history of ideas |
| Soggetto topico |
Skepticism - History
Philosophy |
| ISBN | 94-007-4810-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction, S. Charles, P. Smith -- What is Enlightenment Scepticism? A Critical Rereading of Richard Popkin, S. Charles -- Bayle and Pyrrhonism: Antinomy, Method, and History, P. Smith -- Fideism, Scepticism, or Free-Thought? The Dispute between Lamy and Saint-Laurens about Metaphysical Knowledge, S. Malinowski-Charles -- Leibniz’s Anti-Scepticism, A. Pelletier -- The Protestant Critics of Bayle at the Dawn of the Enlightenment, A. Matytsin -- The ‘Wise Pyrrhonism’ of the Académie Royale des Sciences of Paris: Natural Light and Obscurity of Nature according to Fontenelle, L. Peterschmitt -- Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Moral Scepticisms, P. Kail -- A New Source for Hume’s Treatise: Bayle and the First Half of the Section ‘Of the immateriality of the Soul’, G. Paganini -- Hume’s Reply to Baylean Scepticism, T. Ryan -- How Can we Know if Scepticism is Right or Wrong? Hume and Reid’s Epistemological Answers, C. Etchegaray -- Enfield’s Brucker and Christian Anti-scepticism in Enlightenment Historiography of Philosophy, J -- C. Laursen -- Reasonable Scepticism in the French Enlightenment: some connections between Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Argens, Louis de Beausobre and Voltaire, N. Correard -- Forms and Aims in Voltairean Scepticism, S. Pujol -- D'un scepticisme involontaire à un scepticisme existentiel. Un parcours philosophique dans l'œuvre de Rousseau, M.-A. Nadeau -- An Uneasy Relationship: Atheism and Scepticism in the Late French Enlightenment, A. Kors -- From universal Pyrrhonism to Revolutionary Scepticism: Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, S. Charles -- Kant’s Criticism and the Legacy of Modern Scepticism, P. Smith -- Maimon, scepticisme et Lumières, I. Radrizzani -- Scepticisme et dialectique des Lumières chez le jeune Hegel, I. Testa -- Hegel on Scepticism and Irony, M. Biscuso -- Fichte et Schopenhauer face au scepticisme de Schulze, E. Brandão -- Building without a Foundation: On the Equating of Enlightenment with Scepticism in Post-Revolutionary French Thought, F. Brahami -- Scepticisme et Lumières selon Lamennais, P. Knee. |
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| New York, : Springer, 2013 | ||
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