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Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French PhilosophyCharron’s Academic Skeptical Wisdom

Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy: Charron’s Academic Skeptical Wisdom [Charron’s wisdom, although containing important Stoic and Christian elements, is basically Academic skeptic. This chapter shows, first, the ancient Academic skeptical conception of wisdom in Cicero and then Charron’s two main French Renaissance sources, namely, Omer Talon and Michel de Montaigne. Although the author of the Essays is the main source of Charron’s view of wisdom, I point out some crucial differences between Montaigne’s and Charron’s views of skepticism which illuminate specifically Charronian features of the skepticism present in Gassendi, La Mothe Le Vayer, Descartes and Pascal.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French PhilosophyCharron’s Academic Skeptical Wisdom

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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
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978-3-319-07358-3
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11 –43
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10.1007/978-3-319-07359-0_2
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[Charron’s wisdom, although containing important Stoic and Christian elements, is basically Academic skeptic. This chapter shows, first, the ancient Academic skeptical conception of wisdom in Cicero and then Charron’s two main French Renaissance sources, namely, Omer Talon and Michel de Montaigne. Although the author of the Essays is the main source of Charron’s view of wisdom, I point out some crucial differences between Montaigne’s and Charron’s views of skepticism which illuminate specifically Charronian features of the skepticism present in Gassendi, La Mothe Le Vayer, Descartes and Pascal.]

Published: May 31, 2014

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