Ungers Views on Skepticism and Certainty
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- Introduction
- Unger's attempts to argue in favor of skepticism
- Unger's argument: Treating certainty as a sort of dogmatic attitude
- 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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