I am reading a book titled Truth by a philosopher called Simon Blackburn. It is a good book to ease myself back into academic study. So far I have managed to read the Preface and Introduction and two further pages before I lost concentration.
His opinion of scepticism is understandable if a bit dismissive of great thinkers of the early Enlightenment like Edmund Burke and Denis Diderot. Diderot wasn’t so much of a sceptic as a satirist. His entries in the Encyclopaedie which he compiled and published at huge risk to himself, and those brave enough to print the sly digs at the crown and the clergy, made him a target for the king’s wrath. I enjoyed his writing on the Agnus Dei plant that wept blood.
To say that scepticism finds fault with both sides of any argument and therefore offers no coherent opinions on any subject up for debate is a bit harsh.
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