2016 - Franco Angeli
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L'analyse morale de l'erreur chez Pierre Nicole
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- Nicole is one of the finest French seventeenth-century examiners of the human mind. One can find in his Essais de morale a number of brilliant developments on the characteristic themes of Jansenist anthropology: weakness of reason towards the passions, power of self-love (overestimation of one's own mind and properties), tendency to flee the truth and take refuge in comforting illusions. But in Nicole's writings, self-blinding is rarely complete. Besides, men's errors are due for a noticeable part to a form of inertia of the mind, which can be compared with laziness as described at the same time by La Rochefoucauld. The moral anthropology one encounters when striving to measure the power of reasoning is therefore less unitary than expected. [Publisher's Text].
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ISSN: 1972-5558
KEYWORDS
- Self-love, Augustinianism, Cartesianism, error, judgment, morals, passions, reason, self-deception
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In this issue
- I volti dell'errore nel pensiero moderno : da Bacone a Leibniz : introduzione
- Fact, fiction and error in Bacon and the Royal Society
- Significato, falsità ed errore in Thomas Hobbes
- Descartes on error and madness
- Croisement, permutation : sur un schéma récurrent d'explication de l'erreur dans les philosophies de l'âge classique
- Pascal et l'erreur
- L'analyse morale de l'erreur chez Pierre Nicole
- Sommes-nous tous des lycanthropes? : imagination, folie et vision en dieu dans De la recherche de la vérité de Malebranche
- Spinoza e la necessità dell'errare
- Leibniz on error : between Descartes and Spinoza : will, judgement and the concept of reality
- Before judging : Leibniz on the ultimate origin of error
- The consequences of error : Leibniz and toleration
- Indice dei nomi
- Indice dell'annata 2016
