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100 1 0 _aRoche, Bruno
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245 0 0 _aLa Mothe Le Vayer’s Dialogues in the nineteenth century: The paradoxes of a moralizing criticism
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520 _aDuring the century in which the heritage of classicism was produced, Le Vayer was presented as a compiler of Pyrrho and Sextus Empiricus, without any original thought of his own. Most critics refused to acknowledge the devastating power of his arguments against Christianity. They saw these as the irrelevant products of a philosophy of the “honnête homme,” which used skepticism as a propaedeutic for faith. At the same time that this anodyne representation of Le Vayer’s philosophical discourse was being established, another more heterodox vision emerged, in the uneasy reflections of the first historiographers of libertinism (Étienne, Kerviler) and of their immediate successors (Denis, Perrens).
690 _apagan virtue
690 _aChristian Bartholmèss
690 _aLouis Étienne
690 _aFrançois-Tommy Perrens
690 _aDialogues
690 _aPyrrhonism
690 _airony
690 _aerudite libertinism
690 _aRené Kerviler
690 _askepticism
690 _aLa Mothe Le Vayer
690 _aJoseph-Marie de Gérando
690 _aJacques Denis
786 0 _nDix-septième siècle | o 283 | 2 | 2019-04-03 | p. 237-250 | 0012-4273
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-dix-septieme-siecle-2019-2-page-237?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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