TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Gengoux, Nicole
TI  - A History of Religions in the Theophrastus redivivus - Between Eternal Return, Decline, and Progress of Man
T2  - Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle) 2020, n° 17. Les libertins et l’histoire
JO  - Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle) (ISSN 2649-1826), 17, 2020
DO  - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10876-4.p.0035
SN  - 2649-1826
SP  - 35
EP  - 55
AB  - In the atheist tract Theophrastus redivivus (1659), time is cyclical and the world eternal and non-providential. Within it, however, one also finds a history of religions that corresponds to a degradation of knowledge: rather than a factual history, it is a ‘genealogy’ of error that takes the form of a progressive removal from an original nature. This also renders the reverse movement possible, i.e. that of a progress of “natural reason,” conceived as both sensible and individual.
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/23
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - Cyclical time, eternity, history, genealogy, etymology, origin, model, progress, degradation, natural reason
LA  - fre
UR  - https://classiques-garnier.com/libertinage-et-philosophie-a-l-epoque-classique-xvie-xviiie-siecle-2020-n-17-les-libertins-et-l-histoire-a-history-of-religions-in-the-theophrastus-redivivus.html
Y2  - 2024/07/11
ER  -