03179nam 22006132 450 991015467290332120160607115545.01-316-68330-31-316-68492-X1-316-68519-51-316-68546-21-316-68654-X1-316-68573-X1-316-45098-8(CKB)3710000000729510(SSID)ssj0001682176(PQKBManifestationID)16507499(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001682176(PQKBWorkID)14916469(PQKB)10906526(UkCbUP)CR9781316450987(MiAaPQ)EBC4575415(EXLCZ)99371000000072951020150505d2016|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEpicureans and atheists in France, 1650-1729 /Alan Charles Kors[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2016.1 online resource (ix, 242 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Jun 2016).1-107-13264-9 1-107-58492-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Reading Epicurus -- The Epicureans -- At the boundaries of unbelief -- Historians, atheists, and historical atheists.Atheism was the most foundational challenge to early-modern French certainties. Theologians and philosophers labelled such atheism as absurd, confident that neither the fact nor behaviour of nature was explicable without reference to God. The alternative was a categorical naturalism, whose most extreme form was Epicureanism. The dynamics of the Christian learned world, however, which this book explains, allowed the wide dissemination of the Epicurean argument. By the end of the seventeenth century, atheism achieved real voice and life. This book examines the Epicurean inheritance and explains what constituted actual atheistic thinking in early-modern France, distinguishing such categorical unbelief from other challenges to orthodox beliefs. Without understanding the actual context and convergence of the inheritance, scholarship, protocols, and polemical modes of orthodox culture, the early-modern generation and dissemination of atheism are inexplicable. This book brings to life both early-modern French Christian learned culture and the atheists who emerged from its intellectual vitality.Epicureans (Greek philosophy)AtheismFranceHistory17th centuryAtheismFranceHistory18th centuryFranceIntellectual life17th centuryFranceIntellectual life18th centuryEpicureans (Greek philosophy)AtheismHistoryAtheismHistory194Kors Alan Charles157644UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910154672903321Epicureans and atheists in France, 1650-17292581457UNINA