Apology for Raymond Sebond

by Michel de Montaigne (1588)

translated by Charles Cotton (circa 1686)

• Introduction
• First Objection
• Second Objection
• That Man is No Better than the Animals
• That Man's Knowledge Cannot Make Him Happy
• That Man's Knowledge Cannot Make Him Good
• That Man Has No Knowledge
• That Man Can Have No Knowledge
• That the Senses Are Inadequate
• Conclusion

Note: The foregoing section names have been added by the editor for ease of online reading, roughly following the divisions in the edition of Donald Frame.

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