LEADER 04380nam 22006735 450 001 9910483232203321 005 20230810183717.0 010 $a3-319-07359-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-07359-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000187199 035 $a(EBL)1783039 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001295691 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11766078 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001295691 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11346533 035 $a(PQKB)10028470 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1783039 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-07359-0 035 $a(PPN)179926616 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000187199 100 $a20140709d2014 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAcademic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy $eThe Charronian Legacy 1601-1662 /$fby José R. Maia Neto 205 $a1st ed. 2014. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (173 p.) 225 1 $aInternational Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées,$x2215-0307 ;$v215 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-13653-X 311 $a3-319-07358-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $aThis book is the first systematic account of Pierre Charron?s influence among the major French philosophers in the period (1601-1662). It shows that Charron?s Wisdom was one of the main sources of inspiration of Pierre Gassendi?s first published book, the Exercitationes adversus aristoteleos. It sheds new light on La Mothe Le Vayer, who is usually viewed as a major free thinker. By showing that he was a follower of Charron, La Mothe emerges neither as a skeptical apologist nor as a disguised libertine, as combatting superstition but not as irreligious. The book shows the close presence of Charron in the preambles of Descartes? philosophy and that the cogito is mainly based on the moral Academic self-assurance of Charron?s wise man. This interpretation reverses the standard view of Descartes? relation to skepticism. Once this skepticism is recognized to be Charron?s Academic one, it is seen not as the target but as the source of the cogito. Pascal is the last major philosopher for whom Charron?s wisdom is crucially relevant. Montaigne and Descartes influenced, respectively, Pascal?s view of the Pyrrhonian skeptic and of the skeptical main arguments. The book shows that Charron?s Academic skeptical wise man is one of the main targets of his projected apology for Christianity, since he considered him as a threat and counter-example of the kind of Christian view of human beings he believed. By restoring the historical philosophical relevance of Charron in early modern philosophy and arguing for the relevance of Academic skepticism in the period, this book opens a new research program to early modern scholars and will be valuable for those interested in the history of philosophy, French literature and religion. 410 0$aInternational Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées,$x2215-0307 ;$v215 606 $aPhilosophy, Modern 606 $aReligion 606 $aPhilosophy$xHistory 606 $aEarly Modern Philosophy 606 $aReligion 606 $aHistory of Philosophy 615 0$aPhilosophy, Modern. 615 0$aReligion. 615 0$aPhilosophy$xHistory. 615 14$aEarly Modern Philosophy. 615 24$aReligion. 615 24$aHistory of Philosophy. 676 $a194.082 700 $aNeto$b José R. Maia$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01228617 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483232203321 996 $aAcademic Skepticism in Seventeenth-Century French Philosophy$92852354 997 $aUNINA