Unger’s Views on Skepticism and Certainty

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School essay

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2 pages

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05/10/2007

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Table of Contents Unger’s Views on Skepticism and Certainty Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Unger's attempts to argue in favor of skepticism
  3. Unger's argument: Treating certainty as a sort of dogmatic attitude
  4. Conclusion

Abstract

Peter unger applies a unique approach to skepticism. In his essay, "An Argument for skepticism", he endorses the concept by insisting that if one is not a skeptic, he/she must be (more or less) dogmatic. The way in which he supports this is by attempting to prove that nobody ever knows anything--because if one claims that he/she knows something, he/she is indirectly supposing that it is "perfectly all right" (unger 43) to be certain of it. However, I will argue that unger's definition of certainty-his idea that certainty is more or less a dogmatic attitude-is not accurate; so that one may be certain without being dogmatic.

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