Liberating judgment : fanatics, skeptics, and John Locke's politics of probability / Douglas John Casson.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2011.Description: x, 285 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780691144740 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0691144745 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 9781400836888 (e-book)
- 1400836883 (e-book)
- JC153.L87 C38 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-278) and index.
Introduction : The great recoinage -- Unsettling judgment : knowledge, belief, and the crisis of authority -- Abandoning judgment : Montaignian skeptics and Cartesian fanatics -- Reworking reasonableness : the authoritative testimony of nature -- Forming judgment : the transformation of knowledge and belief -- Liberating judgment : freedom, happiness, and the reasonable self -- Enacting judgment : dismantling the divine certainty of Sir Robert Filmer -- Authorizing judgment : consensual government and the politics of probability -- Conclusion : The great recoinage revisited.