期刊全称 | Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy | 期刊简称 | The Charronian Legac | 影响因子2023 | José R. Maia Neto | 视频video | | 发行地址 | First systematic account of Charron‘s influence among major French Philosophers.First book to show that Academic skepticism was more relevant than Pyrrhonism in Early Modern Philosophy.Provides new re | 学科分类 | International Archives of the History of Ideas‘ Archives internationales d‘histoire des idées | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .This book is the first systematic account of Pierre Charron’s influence among the major French philosophers in the period (1601-1662). It shows that Charron’s .Wisdom. was one of the main sources of inspiration of Pierre Gassendi’s first published book, the .Exercitationes adversus aristoteleos.. It sheds new light on La Mothe Le Vayer, who is usually viewed as a major free thinker. By showing that he was a follower of Charron, La Mothe emerges neither as a skeptical apologist nor as a disguised libertine, as combatting superstition but not as irreligious. The book shows the close presence of Charron in the preambles of Descartes’ philosophy and that the cogito is mainly based on the moral Academic self-assurance of Charron’s wise man. This interpretation reverses the standard view of Descartes’ relation to skepticism. Once this skepticism is recognized to be Charron’s Academic one, it is seen not as the target but as the source of the cogito. Pascal is the last major philosopher for whom Charron’s wisdom is crucially relevant. Montaigne and Descartes influenced, respectively, Pascal’s view of the Pyrrhonian skeptic and of the skeptical main arguments. The book shows that Charron’ | Pindex | Book 2014 |
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