By William M. Hamlin (auth.)
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Published after Sidney’s death, this popular translation was reissued several times. 42 This suggestion is confirmed when he observes that, in antiquity, there were in deede a kinde of Philosophers called Scepticks (that is to say Dowters) which did rather suspend their Judgement concerning the Godhead, then call it in question. But it ought to suffize us, that they be the selfsame which deny al Sciences, yea even those which consist in Demonstration; and which professe themselves to doubt of the things which they see and feele; in so much that they doubt whether they themselves have any beeing or no.
185–8) Primaudaye, in short, distinguishes between doubt and dogmatic ‘incredulitie’ on the grounds of consent. And while he goes on to excoriate ‘Epicures and Atheists’, he none the less endorses preliminary doubt as a valuable habit and avoids equating doubters with The Elizabethan Years 39 non-believers (527). The two parts of his Academie were widely read in Britain, and many Elizabethans might have found his anatomy of doubt useful in understanding the range of cognitive positions between consent and dissent.
31 Juan Luis Vives is yet another Renaissance humanist who seems to have been significantly influenced by Ciceronian scepticism, though his precise sources are difficult to identify. Vives spent time in England during the 1520s, was acquainted with Erasmus and More, and drew on the Academica as well as Praise of Folly in his Introduction to Wisdom (1524). 33 This is no endorsement of Academic scepticism, but it certainly counts as an instance of the marshalling of loosely sceptical arguments against sixteenth-century scholasticism.