De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium
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De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium is a 16th-century work by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa that offers a skeptical critique of the value and reliability of contemporary sciences and arts.
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| De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum et artium canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Renaissance treatise
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book ⓘ |
| addresses |
the instability of worldly fame
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the moral dangers of curiosity ⓘ the reliability of human knowledge ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
expose the limitations of human learning
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warn against the vanity of secular knowledge ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Christian humanism
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occult philosopher Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa ⓘ |
| author | Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| contrastsWith | humanist optimism about learning ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| criticizes |
astrology
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contemporary arts ⓘ contemporary sciences ⓘ law ⓘ magic ⓘ medicine ⓘ philosophy ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ scholastic learning ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| genre |
polemical work
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skeptical literature ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
De incertitudine et vanitate scientiarum
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On the Uncertainty and Vanity of the Sciences and Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPerspective |
emphasis on the limits of human reason
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moral critique of intellectual pride ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Reformation era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian theology
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classical skepticism ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | learned readers ⓘ |
| literaryForm | prose ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
critique of the arts
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critique of the sciences ⓘ skepticism about human knowledge ⓘ vanity of worldly learning ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| period | Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalCurrent | Renaissance skepticism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalDiscipline |
epistemology
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ethics ⓘ |
| publicationCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
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