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Philosophical Skepticism
Philosophical Skepticism provides a selection of texts drawn from the skeptical tradition of Western philosophy as well as texts written by opponents of skepticism. Taken together with the historical introduction by Landesman and Meeks, these texts clearly illustrate the profound influence that skeptical stances have had on the nature of philosophical inquiry.
- GenresPhilosophy
377 pages, Hardcover
First published October 22, 2002
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December 10, 2016
See? We philosophers are relevant. This is not a scam. Honest to god! Now pay us our state given salaries till we are eligible for a decent state pension plan.
With every book I find more honest the lady dressed as a 19th century gypsy guessing my future in the palm I refused to give. These bureaucrats usually are lazy enough to base their whole argument on the fallacy that "Plato was great and I have a diploma calling me a philosopher so I can do research into the human soul."
"There are two principal ways in which reflective human beings try, by
placing their lives in a larger context, to give sense to those lives. The first
is by telling the story of their contribution to a community. This commu-
nity may be the actual historical one in which they live, or another actual
one, distant in time or place, or a quite imaginary one, consisting perhaps
of a dozen heroes and heroines selected from history or fiction or both.
The second way is to describe themselves as standing in immediate
relation to a nonhuman reality. This relation is immediate in the sense
that it does not derive from a relation between such a reality and their
tribe, or their nation, or their imagined band of comrades. I shall say that
stories of the former kind exemplify the desire for solidarity, and that
stories of the latter kind exemplify the desire for objectivity."
Disturbing. And a moron going around with the words that is the words he is using and not the words he does not put on paper, the actual paper of his book and not some other book is skeptical because. Because he says so. Else he is a prophet like any other elementary school graduate invoking the spirits.
With every book I find more honest the lady dressed as a 19th century gypsy guessing my future in the palm I refused to give. These bureaucrats usually are lazy enough to base their whole argument on the fallacy that "Plato was great and I have a diploma calling me a philosopher so I can do research into the human soul."
"There are two principal ways in which reflective human beings try, by
placing their lives in a larger context, to give sense to those lives. The first
is by telling the story of their contribution to a community. This commu-
nity may be the actual historical one in which they live, or another actual
one, distant in time or place, or a quite imaginary one, consisting perhaps
of a dozen heroes and heroines selected from history or fiction or both.
The second way is to describe themselves as standing in immediate
relation to a nonhuman reality. This relation is immediate in the sense
that it does not derive from a relation between such a reality and their
tribe, or their nation, or their imagined band of comrades. I shall say that
stories of the former kind exemplify the desire for solidarity, and that
stories of the latter kind exemplify the desire for objectivity."
Disturbing. And a moron going around with the words that is the words he is using and not the words he does not put on paper, the actual paper of his book and not some other book is skeptical because. Because he says so. Else he is a prophet like any other elementary school graduate invoking the spirits.
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