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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
Acknowledgement
Introduction: The Great Recoinage
I. Unsettling Judgment: Knowledge, Belief, and the Crisis of Authority
Certain Knowledge and Probable Belief
Unsettling Knowledge
Unsettling Belief
II. Abandoning Judgment: Montaignian Skeptics and Cartesian Fanatics
Montaigne and the Politics of Skepticism
Descartes and the Rationalist Dream
Young Locke as Skeptic and Absolutist
III. Reworking Reasonableness: The Authoritative Testimony of Nature
The Transformation of a Skeptic
Precursors to Lockean Reasonableness
From Lecture Halls to Laboratories
IV. Forming Judgment: The Transformation of Knowledge and Belief
Locke’s Political Pedagogy
Fanatics and Philosophizers
Defining and Redefining Knowledge and Belief
V. Liberating Judgment: Freedom, Happiness, and the Reasonable Self
Unrestrained and Restrained Freedoms
The Pursuit of True and Solid Happiness
The Formation of the Reasonable Self
VI. Enacting Judgment: Dismantling the Divine Certainty of Sir Robert Filmer
Preaching Patriarcha from the Pulpit
Probable Judgment and the Authority of Scripture
The Slavishness of Systems
VII. Authorizing Judgment: Consensual Government and the Politics of Probability
The State of Nature as a Realm of Virtue and Convenience
From Moral Clarity to Epistemological Confusion
Entrusting Judgment to a Shared Authority
Prerogative, Public Good, and the Judgment of the People
Conclusion: The Great Recoinage Revisited
References
Index
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