How to think the human soul and God? Gassendi’s redefinition of metaphysics
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: Libertinage et philosophie à l’époque classique (xvie-xviiie siècle)
2021, n° 18. L’usage de la métaphysique chez les matérialistes des xvie, xviie et xviiie siècles - Author: Bellis (Delphine)
- Pages: 65 to 82
- Journal: Libertinism and Philosophy in the Classical Period (16th-18th Century)
I first investigate how, in the Exercitationes, Gassendi redefined, against Aristotle, the limits and methods of metaphysics. I then analyze the materialist arguments on the human soul that he used against Descartes in the Disquisitio metaphysica. I finally show how, in the Syntagma philosophicum, he devised an empiricist metaphysics in order to produce a philosophical conception of God and of the human immaterial soul.
- CLIL theme: 3126 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Philosophie
- ISBN: 978-2-406-12209-8
- EAN: 9782406122098
- ISSN: 2649-1826
- DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12209-8.p.0065
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 10-06-2021
- Periodicity: Annual
- Language: French
- Keyword: Pierre Gassendi, metaphysics, physics, empiricism, materialism, theology, René Descartes, soul, God, Providence
