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Title: Scepticism by Arne Naess ISBN: 0-7100-3639-6 Publisher: Routledge & K. Paul Humanities P. Pub. Date: 1969 Format: Unknown Binding

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Summary: Scepticism as Balanced Worldview
Comment: Using the scepticism of Pyrrho as his model, Naess subjects the sceptical philosophy to a number of historic criticisms, such as Ayer's, Russell's, and Hume's -- only to conclude that scepticism is a good thing. It provides a level of mental peace that no dogmatic philosophy can offer, while permitting both a wide scientific view and strong emotional perception to co-exist on friendly terms. Naess takes Pyrrho's "abstaining from final judgement" style of scepticism as his model rather than other know-nothing forms of scepticism because the reserving-final-judgement type allows sanity in the real world, freedom from dogmatic extremism, and a wide-angle philosophical objectivity that Naess finds practically useful in an era of fundamentalism and other ideological tyranny. The college philosophy student will find Naess' treatment of scepticism clear, complete, and easy to digest with proper concentration.