Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy The Charronian Legacy 1601-1662 /

• Main Author: Neto, José R. Maia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 215
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Modern philosophy.; Modern Philosophy.; Religious Studies, general.; History of Philosophy.

This book is the first systematic account of Pierre Charron’s influence among the major French philosophers in the period (1601-1662). It shows that Charron’s Wisdom was one of the main sources of inspiration of Pierre Gassendi’s first published book, the Exercitationes adversus aristoteleos. It she...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Charron’s Academic Skeptical Wisdom
• Chapter 3: Gassendi’s Attack on Dogmatic Science
• Chapter 4: La Mothe Le Vayer’s Attack on Belief and Superstition
• Chapter 5: Descartes’s Rehabilitation of Science
• Chapter 6: Pascal’s Rehabilitation of Christian Faith
• Chapter 7: Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index Nominum.