Whately's Historic Doubts about Napoleon's Existence and the Preliminary Question
David Berman
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Whately's Historic Doubts about Napoleon's Existence and the Preliminary Question

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This book examines Richard Whately's classic book Historic Doubts Relative to Napoleon Buonaparte. After considering its textual development, the analysis focusses on Whately's idea of the Preliminary Question ; the idea that in the debate about Jesus s miracles there is a more basic question that has been overlooked and which invalidates the debate. It is asked whether the notion of a Preliminary Question might not illuminate other philosophical disputes. Finally, a variant of the Preliminary Question is proposed in which both positions in a dispute are shown to be true and this form of the q...