17th Century
Skepticism in the Seventeenth Century
By by (November 2003)
Sections: 17th Century
Subjects: Literature, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Seventeenth Century Literature, Culture.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1600-1699.
Key Topics: science, Enlightenment, The.
Abstract
This short article gives a structured overview of how skepticism in the Seventeenth Century made a paradoxical contribution to science, politics and religious faith and practice – how did a philosophy distrustful of Reason ultimately lead to the that most reasoned of movements, the Enlightenment?
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00048.x
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