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Charron, Pierre

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Other philosophers linked to Charron: Michel de Montaigne, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Justus Lipsius, Thomas Hobbes, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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Pierre Charron (Paris, 1541–1603) was a French theologian, legal scholar, and philosopher who lived between the Renaissance and Baroque periods (Schneider 1970, 196). He is usually associated with Skepticism, a philosophical school established by Pyrrho of Elis at the end of the fourteenth century B.C. and later spread by Sextus Empiricus at the end of the second century B.C. Skepticism experienced a later comeback in the Renaissance, thanks to the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam, following his controversy with Luther, and Spanish-Portuguese philosopher Francisco Sánchez. Michel de Montaigne, friend and somehow also mentor of Charron, also played a role in this revival due to the strong influence of humanist ideas contained in his French Humanism masterpiece: Les Essais (1580) (Popkin 1960, xii)....

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  1. Chair of Philosophy of Law, University of Seville, Seville, Spain

    Fernando H. Llano Alonso

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Llano Alonso, F.H. (2020). Charron, Pierre. In: Sellers, M., Kirste, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6730-0_753-1

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