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Descartes, René --- Gassendi, Pierre --- Locke, John --- Gassendi, Petrus --- Gassendus, Petrus --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Gassendi, Pierre, --- Descartes, René, --- Locke, John, --- Philosophy, Modern --- Philosophy, French --- Philosophie moderne --- Philosophie française --- Descartes, René, --- Influence --- Influence. --- Gassendus, Petrus, --- Petrus Gassendus, --- Gassend, Pierre, --- Philanthropus, --- Lokk, Dzhon, --- Lūk, Jūn, --- Lo-kʻo, --- Locke, Giovanni, --- Lock, --- Lock, John, --- Rokku, Jon, --- לוק, י׳ון, --- Gassendi, Pierre, - 1592-1655. --- Descartes, René, - 1596-1650. --- Locke, John, - 1632-1704.

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The skeptic Pierre-Daniel Huet’s Censura philosophiae cartesianae (1689) is the most comprehensive, unrelenting and devastating critique of Descartes ever. It incisively captures all the issues that now interest readers of Descartes: the method of doubt, the cogito , clarity and distinctness as criteria of truth, the circularity of the Meditations , proofs of God’s existence, et cetera Naturally, the work provoked great controversy among the Cartesians, who were implicated in various capacities—Nicolas Malebranche as the occasional cause of the publication, and Pierre-Sylvain Regis as the chief defender of the Cartesian camp. What emerges in this study of the controversy is a heroic, defensible Descartes. He possesses hitherto unappreciated answers to the criticisms that have bedeviled his philosophy from his time to ours.

Skeptizismus --- Skepticism. --- Scepticism --- Unbelief --- Agnosticism --- Belief and doubt --- Free thought --- Descartes, René --- Huet, Pierre Daniel --- Descartes, René, --- Descartes, Renatus --- Cartesius, Renatus --- Skepticism --- Descartes, René --- Huet, Daniel --- Huetius, Petrus Danielis --- Huet, Pierre-Daniel, --- Descartes, Rene,

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How much of our own self- interest should we be willing to sacrifice for love of another? The Quietists answered, all of it, even the salvation of our own soul. Opposing them were the Jansenists, including Arnauld, who saw self-interest as inescapable. The debate swept across French society in the 17th century, with Bossuet and Fénelon on opposite sides, and was multi- dimensional, with political and ecclesiastical intrigue, charges of heresy, and many shenanigans. Initially theological, the debate’s basis lay in differing philosophical concepts of freewill, with both sides claiming support from Descartes’s views. The debate thus highlights interpretation of the Cartesians, especially Malebranche, a prominent participant in it. Nevertheless, this is the first book on the debate in English.

Sacrifice. --- Self-interest. --- Quietism. --- Jansenists. --- Descartes, René,

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Knowledge, Theory of --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Knowledge, Theory of.

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Difficile à lire, connu de réputation pour ses objections aux Méditations de Descartes, sa réhabilitation d’Épicure et des atomes, voire le caractère ambigu de ses relations avec les “libertins”, Pierre Gassendi est un personnage un peu flou dans notre galerie de portraits imaginaire. Il fut cependant un auteur important, lu, connu, approuvé ou critiqué dans toute l’Europe, surtout par les savants qui voulaient fonder efficacement leur physique moderne sans renier pour autant les acquis des anciens. Les études réunies ici ont cherché comme la trace et le reflet de l’œuvre de Gassendi dans les écrits d’autres auteurs qui ont vécu de son temps et jusqu’à la fin des Lumières – non seulement en France –, mais aussi en Angleterre (comme Walter Charleton, John Locke, David Hume ou Robert Boyle), en Hollande (professeurs d’Université), en Allemagne (Leibniz), en Pologne (Sociniens et “libertins”), en Italie du Nord (comme le jésuite milanais Thommaso Ceva), en Italie du Sud (comme le fondateur de l’Accademia degli Investiganti Tommaso Cornelio ou Giambattista Vico), en Espagne enfin (comme le médecin Martínez). Aujourd’hui encore Gassendi fait des adeptes parmi ceux que séduisent les chemins non battus de l’effort gratuit et de l’érudition austère, ceux que ravit absolument une certaine esthétique baroque de l’esprit pur.

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