Papers by John Christian Laursen
University of Toronto Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020
La Lettre clandestine: revue d'information sur la littérature clandestine de l'âge classique, 2017
Springer eBooks, Jul 13, 2011
... Bayle, a French Protestant by birth who was living in exile in Rotterdam, responded to August... more ... Bayle, a French Protestant by birth who was living in exile in Rotterdam, responded to Augustine and the Catholics with A Philosophical ... A Letter Concerning Toleration” has received, even though it goes further, and was pub-lished earlier, than Locke's work (see Laursen 1998 ...
Ambitos: revista de estudios de ciencias sociales y humanidades, 2012
Journal of the History of Ideas, 2020
Revista De Estudios Politicos, Jun 16, 2009
International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, Nov 17, 2020
This article explores some senses in which Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805) may be understood as... more This article explores some senses in which Isabelle de Charrière (1740–1805) may be understood as a skeptic in her personal life and in her literary life, although the two cannot really be separated since she lived the literary life. She called herself a skeptic a number of times, and also showed some knowledge of the Academic or Socratic and especially of the Pyrrhonian traditions of skepticism in her novels and extensive correspondence. This Dutch-Swiss writer provides an example of what it might be to live as a skeptic, serving as a case study for the debates about the feasibility and moral status of living with skepticism.
Revista De Estudios Politicos, 2014
History of European Ideas
Perspectives on Politics, 2013
Springer eBooks, Sep 23, 2021
Daimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía, 2013
A review essay on what some scholars have said about heterodox thinking in Spain in the eighteent... more A review essay on what some scholars have said about heterodox thinking in Spain in the eighteenth century, contrasted with evidence from the reviewed book, which is on the Galician inquisition.
Araucaria, 2024
Benito Feijoo (1676-1764) was one of the most important mediators to the public of the latest sci... more Benito Feijoo (1676-1764) was one of the most important mediators to the public of the latest scientific and philosophical ideas in Spain in the eighteenth century. A self-conscious critic of all sorts of ideas and a member of the republic of letters, he also called himself a skeptic. At first, that meant allying himself with physician Martín Martínez, a famous critic of Aristotelianism in medicine who also called himself a skeptic. After supporting Martínez's view of skepticism in medicine against his critics, Feijoo seems to have abandoned the term, perhaps because he learned more about what the term could mean and realized it could be understood in some quarters to undermine the Catholic church and support atheistic materialism. He explored what skepticism could mean in medicine in some detail, but avoided using it in philosophical and theological matters.
Montaigne, Affect, Emotion Type de publication : Revue Directeur d'ouvrage : Reeser (Todd) Résumé... more Montaigne, Affect, Emotion Type de publication : Revue Directeur d'ouvrage : Reeser (Todd) Résumé : Les Montaigne Studies présentent des recherches interdisciplinaires sur Montaigne et son oeuvre, ainsi que des documents originaux relatifs à l'auteur et ses écrits. Nombre de pages : 222
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Papers by John Christian Laursen