"Sense and Sensibility. The Scholastic Origins of the Enlightenment Man of Feeling".
Damien Tricoire

June 18, 2021, 4:00pm - 6:00pm

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Jagiellonian University
Jagiellonian University

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Eighteenth-century studies interpret the Enlightenment as a break with scholasticism, that is medieval university philosophy. In this paper, I propose a radically different view: my aim is to show that core concepts of Enlightenment philosophy, and thus central ideas in Enlightenment culture in general, were of scholastic origin. I will focus on Rousseau's moral philosophy, and, in several reception stages, trace back its core ideas to 13th-century scholasticism. This may help to understand better the theological dimension of Enlightenment thought and culture, often associated with secularisation.

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