Scepticism

ISBN-13: 9780460878180 / Angielski

Richard Popkin

Opis

A comprehensive anthology on Scepticism, that most controversial and yet indispensable philosophical position. In his introduction, Professor Popkin gives an overview of the history of Scepticism from ancient times to the present and outlines the basic kinds of sceptical argument. The anthology includes the work of famous sceptics, from the great Greek philosopher Plato to Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, Voltaire, Kant, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, William James, Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein up to the most recent developments in postmodern philosophy. Scepticism is a philosophical stance which questions the possibility of attaining lasting knowledge about reality and which rejects all dogmatism, fanaticism and intolerance. While it offers us the prospect of rational progress freed from religious superstition, it also radically undermines our very faith in reason itself by questioning everything we hold dear.