This paper, dedicated to Gérauld de Cordemoy, pursues a dual purpose: first, to reconstruct a specific conflicting situation which involves Claude Clerselier and Robert Desgabets by stressing the role the three man played within Cartesianism (I); second, to emphasize the role played by Desgabets himself in a letter to Clerselier in order to demonstrate that, because of his atomistic position, Cordemoy can be considered an ̳outsider‘ of Cartesianism (II). Actually, Cordemoy was the only Cartesian scholar to approve Atomism as it appears clearly in the above mentioned letter which is published integrally at the end of the present paper (III. Appendix).
Cordemoy: Is He a Cartesian Outsider? Desgabets’s Interpretation of Cordemoy’s Atomism
Agostini Siegrid
2018-01-01
Abstract
This paper, dedicated to Gérauld de Cordemoy, pursues a dual purpose: first, to reconstruct a specific conflicting situation which involves Claude Clerselier and Robert Desgabets by stressing the role the three man played within Cartesianism (I); second, to emphasize the role played by Desgabets himself in a letter to Clerselier in order to demonstrate that, because of his atomistic position, Cordemoy can be considered an ̳outsider‘ of Cartesianism (II). Actually, Cordemoy was the only Cartesian scholar to approve Atomism as it appears clearly in the above mentioned letter which is published integrally at the end of the present paper (III. Appendix).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
