The Significance of Scepticism in Philosophy, Judaism, and Culture, Summer School, Hamburg 16–19 July 2024
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18 janvier 2024
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Andreas Lehnertz, « The Significance of Scepticism in Philosophy, Judaism, and Culture, Summer School, Hamburg 16–19 July 2024 », medievalJewishStudiesNow!, ID : 10.58079/vmc8
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The value of scepticism in philosophy has been judged in different ways throughout history. To name but a few examples: Pyrrhonists conceived of scepticism as a means of reaching happiness, while later philosophers, especially in early modern times, came to equate a sceptical attitude with an incurable malady. Despite their differences, however, all thinkers agreed on seeing scepticism as something deeply bound up with the human condition; that is, with the fundamental contradiction of ...