TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hubert,Mathieu
TI  - The paradoxes of foolishness, from Montaigne to La Bruyère
PY  - 2022///.
							
N1  - 24
N2  - This paper deals with a paradox described by Montaigne and several seventeenth-century authors: that one can be a scholar and a fool at the same time. The truth is not something that can be simply stated: it requires something else, namely an appropriate way of saying it. If we say something false, it is not a foolish thing: it is only an error. Analyzing the paradox of foolishness leads Montaigne to emphasize that foolishness is nothing else than telling the truth in a foolish manner. We will clarify the important concept of “manner.” Then, we will point out a new paradigm emerging at the end of the seventeenth century, a mechanicist interpretation of foolishness inspired by Cartesian philosophy. La Bruyère puts it vividly: one is a fool when one speaks and acts as a machine
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-internationale-de-philosophie-2022-1-page-9?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
ER  -