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Lecture 02: Continental Skepticism

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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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The focus of this lecture is continental scepticism, primarily a French movement influenced by Deism, and its main proponents: Voltaire and Rousseau.

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This lecture introduces the course and the seven sceptical challenges of the period: continental, urbane, populist, scholarly, transcendental, establishment, and Dutch and German.
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Urbane scepticism, an extension of English Deism, is presented in this lecture mostly through the lens of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with a response by Bishop Richard Watson.
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Ian Ramsey Centre: The Great Debate
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Timothy McGrew
Keywords
continental scepticism
French scepticism
deism
voltaire
Candide
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
miracle
prophecy
Emile
Department: Faculty of Theology and Religion
Date Added: 29/06/2017
Duration: 00:38:25

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