Fighting illness could be a nonsense, if we consider human condition as a disease in itself. This paper shows that, in Montaigne’s skeptical anthropology, firstly health can be considered as an adjustment of disease, and therapeutic obstinacy as a pathological refusal of self; secondly that the healthy acceptance of oneself as sick differs from Stanley Cavell’s interpretation of skepticism, based on Descartes’ work, as pathological obstinacy to cure humans of their contingency.
ISBN:978-2-406-12623-2
ISSN: 2271-7234
DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12623-2.p.0023
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
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Keyword: Skepticism, Anomaly, Anthropology, ordinary, Stanley Cavell, Waldo Emerson