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Bacon et Descartes : genèses de la modernité philosophique

Bacon et Descartes : genèses de la modernité philosophique

Edited by Élodie Cassan

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Bacon and Descartes : the Geneses of Modern Philosophy

Why are Bacon and Descartes, who belong to two different philosophical traditions, often regarded as having laid out the agenda for modern philosophy? It is true that they have rejected Aristotelism and that they have elaborated on the power of man over nature and on the importance of technique. However, the genesis of modern philosophy is a much more complex process, as the essays collected in this volume intend to show, by shedding light on the intellectual connections between these two philosophers, a question rarely treated in the existing literature. The resort to a dialectical methodology reveals the extent to which the history of modern philosophy is structured by two ways of thinking, which develop thanks to each other, namely, rationalism and empiricism.