Pierre-Sylvain Régis
Pierre-Sylvain Régis (* 1632 in La Sauvetat, hamlet of Blanquefort-sur-Briolance near Agen , † 1707 in Paris ) was a French philosopher and follower of Cartesianism . In his main work he gave the first systematic presentation of Descartean philosophy.
Life
Régis attended the Jesuit school in Cahors and then studied theology in Paris. He attended the lectures of Jacques Rohault in Paris and through this (and as a student of Robert Degabets ) became a follower of René Descartes . He taught his philosophy with great success in Toulouse , where Rohault sent him for this purpose in 1665, in Aigues-Mortes (where he met John Locke ), Montpellier (1671) and returned to Paris in 1680. There the doctrine of Descartes was forbidden at that time by the Archbishop of Paris because of the resulting disputes. This delayed the publication of his main work by ten years until 1690.
Within Cartesianism he was an opponent of Nicolas Malebranche , developed Descartean philosophy more in the direction of empiricism . In addition to his main work published in 1690 (which also contains significant deviations from Descartes' original teaching), he published responses to criticism from Jean Duhamel (professor at the Sorbonne) and Pierre Daniel Huet in the two following years . He was also involved in a dispute with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and was also a prominent critic of Baruch de Spinoza . The painting branch student Henri Lelevel had already accused him of Spinozism , which Régis rejected.
In 1699 he became a member of the Académie des Sciences .
Fonts
- Système de philosophie, contenant la logique, la métaphysique, la physique et la moral , 4 volumes, Lyon 1690, 2nd edition as Cours entier de philosophie ou Système général selon les principles de Descartes, contenant la logique, la métaphysique, la physique et la morale , 3 volumes, Amsterdam 1691, reprint New York: Johnson 1970
- Réponse au livre quie a pour titre P. Danielis Huetii Censura philosophiæ Cartesianæ , Paris 1691
- Répose aux reflexions critique de M. Duhamel sur le système cartésian de M. Régis , Paris 1692
- Première Replique a Malebranche , Paris 1694 (and second, third replica)
- Réflexions sur Leibniz and Réflexions .. pour réplique , Journal des Savants, 1697
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Usage de la raison et de la foi, ou l'accord de la raison et de la foi , Paris 1704, new edition, published by JM Armogathe, Paris: Fayard 1996
- in the appendix Réfutation de l'opinion de Spinoza, touchant l'existence et la nature de Dieu
- Discursus philosophicus in quo historia philosophiae antiquae et recentioris recensetur , 1705
literature
- Geneviève Rodis-Lewis, article Régis in RW Meyer (ed.), Friedrich Überwegs Outline of the History of Philosophy, Basel, Schwabe 1993
- Desmond Clarke Pierre-Sylvain Régis: a paradigm of cartesian methodology , Archive for the History of Philosophy, Volume 62, 2009, pp. 289-310
- Roger Ariew Descartes and the Last Scholastics , Cornell University Press 1999
- RA Watson The breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics , Humanities Press 1988
- Guido Canzoni Tra Descartes e Hobbes: la morale nel Système di Pierre-Sylvain Régis in B. William a. a. Hobbes oggi , Milan 1990, pp. 491-501
- Guido Canziani L'onnipotenza divina in Pierre-Sylvain Régis , in Guido Canziani, Miguel A. Granada, Yves Charles Zarka (editor) Potentia Dei. L'onnipotenza divina nel pensiero dei secoli XVI e XVII , Milan 2000, pp. 561-588
- Thomas Lennon Pierre-Sylvain Régis , Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Volume 8, 1998
- Sébastien Charles, entry Régis in L. Foisneau (editor) Dictionary of seventeenth century french philosophers , London, New York 2008, Volume 2, pp. 1062-1067
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Régis, Pierre-Sylvain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1632 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Salvetat de Blanquefort near Agen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1707 |
| Place of death | Paris |