Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (3)

ULB (3)

ULiège (3)

KBR (2)

UGent (2)

UCLouvain (1)

VUB (1)


Resource type

book (3)


Language

English (2)

French (1)


Year
From To Submit

1998 (3)

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by
Against the Grammarians (Adversus Mathematicos I)
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0198244703 9780198244707 Year: 1998 Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press,

Vérité du scepticisme chez Montaigne
Author:
ISBN: 2738471498 9782738471499 Year: 1998 Volume: *19 Publisher: Paris Montréal L'Harmattan

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Qu'est-ce qu'être sceptique ? Mais surtout, peut-on vraiment être sceptique ? Au scepticisme on veut bien en effet reconnaître une validité limitée. Il est bon de douter ou de remettre en cause ses certitudes ou ses préjugés, mais pour mieux asseoir ses croyances, plus légitimement. Il est vrai que nous sommes parfois pleins d'hésitations et de scrupules et que nous avons du mal à nous décider, mais il faut bien en venir à une décision. Aussi, si nous prêtons une certaine sagesse à ceux que nous nommons sceptiques, c'est en pensant néanmoins que cette sagesse est un peu courte, et peut-être même seulement artificielle, doctrinale ou verbale. Bref, on ne saurait vivre, sans forfanterie, comme un sceptique. Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne offre pourtant le portrait de quelqu'un qui vécut, pensa, jugea, sentit même en sceptique, ou tout du moins qui le voulut profondément. Pour quelles raisons ? C'est ce que cet ouvrage veut expliquer, en analysant également les principales figures de ce scepticisme.

The skeptical tradition around 1800 : skepticism in philosophy, science, and society
Author:
ISBN: 079234846X 9048149460 9401734658 9780792348467 Year: 1998 Volume: 155 Publisher: Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In the early 1980s the late Charles B. Schmitt and I discussed the fact that so much new research and new interpretations were taking place concerning various areas of modem skepticism that we, as pioneers, ought to organize a conference where these new findings and outlooks could be presented and discussed. Charles and I had both visited the great library at Wolfenbiittel, and were most happy when the Herzog August Bibliothek agreed to host the first conference on the history of skepticism, in 1984 (published as Skepticism from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, ed. R. H. Popkin and Charles B. Schmitt [Wiesbaden, 1987, Wolfenbiitteler For­ schungen, vol. 35]) Charles and I projected a series of later conferences, the first of which would deal with skepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Unfortunately, however, Charles died suddenly in 1986, while lecturing in Padua. Subsequent to his death Constance Blackwell, his companion of many years, established the Foundation for Intellectual History to support research and publica­ tion on topics in the history of ideas that continued Schmitt's interests. One of the first ventures was to arrange and fund the already planned conference on skepticism and irreligion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. After many difficulties and problems, the conference was sponsored and funded by the Foundation for Intel­ lectual History, one of its first public activities. It was held at the lovely facilities of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in Wassenaar in 1990.

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by