TY  - EJOUR
A1  - Paganini, Gianenrico
TI  - Proportion and “Disproportion” of Man? - Pascal, Gassendi, and the French free-thinkers facing infinity of time
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.0019
SN  - 2649-1826
SP  - 19
EP  - 33
AB  - Pascal’s argument concerning the “disproportion of man” regards time as well as space. And we must also take into account the fact that in new science and metaphysics (especially Gassendi) the traditional notion of eternity had been absorbed by that of infinite time, as a continuous and homogeneous flow. On this background of questions, the article analyzes the positions of libertines, such as Naudé and La Mothe, le Vayer and a clandestine author, that of Theophrastus redivivus (1659).
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/09/23
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - Blaise Pascal, Pierre Gassendi, infinite time, eternity, free-thinkers
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-proportion-and-disproportion-of-man.html
Y2  - 2024/07/17
ER  -