the sceptic philosophy
1Philosophy (The) of the Italian Renaissance — The philosophy of the Italian Renaissance Jill Kraye TWO CULTURES: SCHOLASTICISM AND HUMANISM IN THE EARLY RENAISSANCE Two movements exerted a profound influence on the philosophy of the Italian Renaissance: scholasticism and humanism, both of… …
2Sceptics (The) — The sceptics Michael Frede INTRODUCTION When we speak of ‘scepticism’ and of ‘sceptics’, we primarily think of a philosophical position according to which nothing is known for certain, or even nothing can be known for certain. There are certain… …
3Enlightenment (The Scottish) — The Scottish Enlightenment M.A.Stewart INTRODUCTION The term ‘Scottish Enlightenment’ is used to characterize a hundred years of intellectual and cultural endeavour that started around the second decade of the eighteenth century. Our knowledge of …
4Aufklärung (The German) and British philosophy — The German Aufklärung and British philosophy Manfred Kuehn INTRODUCTION The German Enlightenment was not an isolated phenomenon.1 It was closely connected with developments in other European countries and in North America. Like the thinkers in… …
5sceptic — [16] The Greek verb sképtesthai meant ‘examine, consider’ (it was descended from a base *skep which was related to *skop , source of English scope, and may have been a reversed version of *spek , from which English gets spectator, speculate, etc) …
6sceptic — [16] The Greek verb sképtesthai meant ‘examine, consider’ (it was descended from a base *skep which was related to *skop , source of English scope, and may have been a reversed version of *spek , from which English gets spectator, speculate, etc) …
7sceptic — (archaic & N. Amer. skeptic) noun 1》 a person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions. ↘a person who doubts the truth of Christianity and other religions; an atheist. 2》 Philosophy a philosopher who denies the possibility of knowledge …
8sceptic — n. & adj. (US skeptic) n. 1 a person inclined to doubt all accepted opinions; a cynic. 2 a person who doubts the truth of Christianity and other religions. 3 hist. a person who accepts the philosophy of Pyrrhonism. adj. = SCEPTICAL. Derivatives:… …
9Renaissance philosophy outside Italy — Stuart Brown Italy might justly be described as the home of Renaissance philosophy. Many of the important cultural developments of the period originated in Italy and only gradually spread north and west to other countries. But each of the other… …
10Science and British philosophy: Boyle and Newton — G.A.J.Rogers INTRODUCTION Achievements in the natural sciences in the period from Nicholas Copernicus (1473– 1543) to the death of Isaac Newton (1642–1727) changed our whole understanding of the nature of the universe and of the ways in which we… …
