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The Modern Project to Rigor

by Patrick Madigan
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Overview

Building on the works of Popkin, Gilson, Fackenheim, and Kaufmann, the author expands the scope of what can be treated by the hypothesis of skepticism or pursuit of rigor in the modern world.

About the Author, Patrick Madigan

Patrick Madigan is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University.

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The Review Of Metaphysics

...a very useful, thoughtful reflection woven out of a single threading theme: that Descartes' project to defeat the sceptic initiates a relentless pursuit of reason-as-rigor, wherein this reason impregnated with the seeds of suspicion (Descartes' malin genie) increasingly threatens the very freedom that launched the 'modern project to rigor.' What is especially praiseworthy is the author's success in displaying, with broad brush strokes, accented by occasional detail, a vital lineage between Descartes and Nietzsche.

Book Details

Published
December 23, 1985
Publisher
Lanham : University Press of America, c1986.
Pages
224
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780819150806

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