“I am not a philosopher,” wrote Michel de Montaigne in the Essais. This text aims to show that despite this he was, perhaps all the more so the less he claimed to be one. He read philosophers, confronting them with each other and himself, and liked philosophy to be vibrant, joyful and “playful.”
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-09175-2
EAN:9782406091752
ISSN: 0986-492X
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-482-8
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 09-15-2006
Language: French
Keyword: Ergotism, pain, phronesis, nature, interpretation, Hellenic philosophy, scholastic, judgement, Cicero, history of sixteenth-century ideas