Pierre Bayle & Skepticism
Published on Nov 24, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
PIERRE BAYLE
- Born Nov. 18th 1647 in Carla-Bayle France
- Huguenot
- Skeptic, master dialectician
- Wrote mainly about technical, religious issues
- Most popular work is le Dictionnaire historique et critique
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LE DICTIONNAIRE HISTORIQUE ET CRITIQUE
- Bayle sums up the 17th century intellectual situation
- Biographical
- Most important discussions take place in his long, digressive footnotes
- Skeptical challenges...developed the most extreme skepticism
- Notes in Pyrrho
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SKEPTICISM...AN OVERVIEW
- Questioning attitude
- Philosophical, religious, scientific, etc.
- Skeptics may even doubt reliability of their own senses
- Pyrrhonism and Fallibilism
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WORKS CITED
- http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhonism#History
- http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skepticism
- http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bayle/#BaySke
- The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Volume 7 pg 453-454
