The Structure of Thoreau’s Epistemology, with Continual Reference to Descartes
Abstract We can find in Henry David Thoreau’s work a response to Cartesian skepticism. Thoreau takes this skepticism to get its start in us only when we are not attuned to the world, that is, only when we lose sight of our being integrated with the world in the way we quite naturally are. Thoreau po...
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Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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International journal for the study of skepticism
Year: 2021, Volume: 11, Issue: 4, Pages: 269-288 |
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Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862
/ Epistemological contextualism
/ Cartesianism
/ Scepticism
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RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism VA Philosophy ZB Sociology |
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Epistemology
B Henry David Thoreau B Skepticism B Descartes |
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