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1 - Jacobi and Philosophy

Rationalism and Skepticism

from Part I - The Critique of Reason: Debates on Rationalism, Empiricism, and Skepticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2023

By
Benjamin Crowe
Edited by
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Alexander J. B. Hampton
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

This chapter considers the place of Jacobi’s thought within the history of philosophy. Despite the prominent dismissal of his thought as unsystematic, misologist, and effectively incompatible with scientific philosophy, Jacobi’s critique of rationalist philosophy aptly situates him within the tradition of philosophical skepticism.

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Jacobihistory of philosophyskepticismpure reasonfaithUnwissenheitslehreSulzer
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment
Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity
 , pp. 9 - 33
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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