“For REASON […] is nothing but Reckoning” : the Postulates of Hobbes’s and Descartes’s Rationalism

Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes are contemporary authors whose rationalistic approach means to emancipate science from theology. Hobbes’s Leviathan (1651) and Descartes’s Discours de la méthode (1637) expound a method which is supposed to account for the various phenomena peculiar to the physical a...

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Main Author: Jean-Marc Chadelat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2014-10-01
Series:Revue LISA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/lisa/6307
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