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  title info:
    title: Academic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy
    sub title: The Charronian Legacy 1601-1662
  name:
    name part: Neto, José R. Maia.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 165 p. 1 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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’s Academic skeptical wise man is one of the main targets of his projected apology for Christianity, since he considered him as a threat and counter-example of the kind of Christian view of human beings he believed. By restoring the historical philosophical relevance of Charron in early modern philosophy and arguing for the relevance of Academic skepticism in the period, this book opens a new research program to early modern scholars and will be valuable for those interested in the history of philosophy, French literature and religion.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Charron’s Academic Skeptical Wisdom -- Chapter 3: Gassendi’s Attack on Dogmatic Science -- Chapter 4: La Mothe Le Vayer’s Attack on Belief and Superstition -- Chapter 5: Descartes’s Rehabilitation of Science -- Chapter 6: Pascal’s Rehabilitation of Christian Faith -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Nominum.
  note: by José R. Maia Neto.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Modern philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Modern Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Religious Studies, general
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  classification: B790-5802
  classification: 190
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 215
  identifier: 9783319073590
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07359-0
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    record creation date: 140709
    record change date: 20151204145501.0
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