The argument serves as a reminder that radical scepticism is not the invention of the late twentieth century, and that itsstrategies and implications have never been more interestingly explored than in the eighteenth.
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Language: en
Pages: 290
Pages: 290
'The more we enquire, the less we can resolve,' wrote Johnson. Scepticism-a reasoned emphasis on the severe limitations of rationality-would seem to undermine the grounds of belief and action. But in some of the best eighteenth-century literature, a theoretically paralysing critique of thepretensions of reason, precept, and language went hand
Language: en
Pages: 290
Pages: 290
This study of the role of scepticism in literature offers an introduction to key issues in 18th-century literature and philosophy. Parker traces the presence of sceptical thinking in works by Pope, Hume, Sterne, & Johnson & relates it more broadly to the social self-consciousness of 18th-century culture
Language: de
Pages: 350
Pages: 350
Vertritt Kant eine puristische Ansicht über das Verhältnis von moralischen Verpfl ichtungen und moralischer Motivation, wonach jemand nicht anders handeln kann (oder darf) als so, wie es das Gebot des kategorischen Imperativs von ihm fordert? Oder besteht zwischen der möglichen Einsicht in unsere moralische Pflicht und unserem Wunsch, entsprechend zu
Language: en
Pages: 112
Pages: 112
Books about The Anatomy of Scepticism. An Examination Into the Causes of the Progress which Scepticism is Making in England
Language: en
Pages: 160
Pages: 160
Religious discourse has become alien to the secular and skeptical western societies of the twentieth century. There is real discomfort when religious discourse appears either in the popular press or in society. But even in a secular society, there is still a psychological need (one might even use the stronger