Montaigne's skepticism: Apologie of Sebond, 1580


	Montaigne's skepticism: Apologie of Sebond, 1580

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3-25-2008 5:08 PM

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Montaigne's famous defense of Raymond Sebond, the proponent of natural theology, in which he lays out a profoundly, even shockingly skeptical view of human knowledge.

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AN
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XII: AN
APOLOGIE OF RAYMOND SEBOND</FONT></FONT></H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.uoregon.edu/%7Erbear/montaigne/2xii.htm">Thus can nothing be certainely
established, nor of the one nor of the other; both the judgeing and the
judged being in continuall alteration and motion. We have no
communication
with being; for every humane nature is ever in the middle betwee ne
being
borne and dying; giving nothing of it selfe but an obscure apparence
and
shadow, and an uncertaine and weake opinion. And if perhaps you fix
your
thought to take its being, it would be even as if one should go about
to
graspe the water: for, how much the more he shal close and presse that
which by its owne nature is ever gliding, so much the more he shall
loose
what he would hold and fasten. Thus, seeing all things are subject to
passe
from one change to another, reason, which therein seeketh a reall
subsistence,
findes her selfe deceived as unable to apprehend any thing subsistent
and
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