Descartes - An Enthusiast Malgré Lui
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20078705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Heyd (0000-0001-7577-8317, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Pages | 35-58 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Sceptics, Millenarians and Jews (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/9789004246669_004 |
| OpenAlex | W2250151685 |
| ISBN | 9789004246669 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 1 |
This chapter focuses on the image of Descartes in the eyes of his opponents, his image as a Rosicrucian, mystic and enthusiast or fanatic. Such an image is, perhaps, almost as important historically as the real influence which Rosicrucianism (or the so-called hermetic tradition) might have had on the development of Descartes's thought. The charges against Descartes, accusing him of and of affiliations with the Rosicrucians seem to have been prevalent in the 1640s and 1650s and then re-emerged again in the late 1680s and the 1690s. They first came up in the famous debates in Utrecht in the early 1640s concerning Descartes's philosophy. The chief significance of the Admiranda Methodus for the author's purpose is that it linked Descartes not only with scepticism and atheism, as Popkin has shown, but for the first time with enthusiasm as well.Keywords: Admiranda Methodus; atheism; Descartes; enthusiasm; Rosicrucianism; scepticism
Classical Philosophy and Thought · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Philosophy and Science · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2002 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |