The Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630–1690Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 M12 6 - 159 páginas The revival of ancient Greek scepticism in the 16th and 17th centuries was of the greatest importance in changing the intellectual climate in which modern science developed, and in developing the attitude that we now call "The scientific outlook". Many streams of thought came together contributing to various facets of this crucial development. One of the most fascinating of these is that of "constructive scepticism", the history of one of whose forms is traced in this study by Prof. Van Leeuwen. The sceptical crisis that arose during the Renaissance and Refor mation challenged the fundamental principles of the many areas of man's intellectual world, in philosophy, theology, humane and moral studies, and the sciences. The devastating weapons of classical scep ticism were employed to undermine man's confidence in his ability to discover truth in any area whatsoever by use of the human faculties of the senses and reason. These sceptics indicated that there was no area in which human beings could gain any certain knowledge, and that the effort to do so was fruitless, vain, presumptuous, and perhaps even blasphemous. StaI'ting with the writings of Hen ric us Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535) and Michel de Montaigne (1533-92), a thoroughly destructive sceptical movement developed, attacking both the old and the new science, philosophy and theology, and insisting that true and certain knowledge can only be gained by Revelation. |
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... absolute knowledge sought by the dogmatic philosophers cannot be found , but at the same time we can find a type of knowledge which we have no reason to doubt , and which suffices to enable us to understand the world . This limited ...
... absolute knowledge sought by the dogmatic philosophers cannot be found , but at the same time we can find a type of knowledge which we have no reason to doubt , and which suffices to enable us to understand the world . This limited ...
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... absolute certainty in this area , and the need to be " reasonable " in dealing with religious questions . In England , starting with the now almost forgotten figure , William Chillingworth , in his once famous , The Religion of ...
... absolute certainty in this area , and the need to be " reasonable " in dealing with religious questions . In England , starting with the now almost forgotten figure , William Chillingworth , in his once famous , The Religion of ...
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... certainty of knowledge developed in England between 1630 and 1690. This inquiry begins with an ex- amination of a ... absolute certainty and skepticism with its denial of the possibility of any knowledge whatever . A detailed account ...
... certainty of knowledge developed in England between 1630 and 1690. This inquiry begins with an ex- amination of a ... absolute certainty and skepticism with its denial of the possibility of any knowledge whatever . A detailed account ...
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... absolute certainty about the real structure of nature . Bacon's views concerning the certainty of scientific knowledge are thus shown to be at odds with those of the more influential of the early members of the Royal Society . In ...
... absolute certainty about the real structure of nature . Bacon's views concerning the certainty of scientific knowledge are thus shown to be at odds with those of the more influential of the early members of the Royal Society . In ...
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... absolute certainty . The view developed later in the century began with the recognition that absolute certainty is unattainable and skepticism not completely avoidable , but concluded that a moderate degree of certainty could be had by ...
... absolute certainty . The view developed later in the century began with the recognition that absolute certainty is unattainable and skepticism not completely avoidable , but concluded that a moderate degree of certainty could be had by ...
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208 | 81 |
Isaac Newton | 106 |
John Locke and the Philosophical Exposition of the Theory | 121 |
Bibliography | 153 |
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The Problem of Certainty in English Thought 1630–1690 Henry G. van Leeuwen Vista previa limitada - 1970 |
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