Pierre Nicole

Portrait of Pierre Nicole by Cornelis Vermeulen

Pierre Nicole (born October 19, 1625 in Chartres , † November 16, 1695 in Paris ) was a French theologian and logician and a representative of Jansenism .

With Antoine Arnauld , he wrote La logique ou l'art de penser (known as the Logic of Port-Royal ), a book that propagated logical reasoning as a prerequisite for gaining knowledge. It was of particular importance to the Enlightenmentists of the 18th century.

View of the rue Pierre-Nicole in Paris on the corner with the rue du Val-de-Grâce

Honors

In Paris the rue Pierre-Nicole was named after him.

Works

• Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: The logic or the art of thinking. 2., through and an introduction. Edition, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft WBG, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 3-534-03710-3
• Antoine Arnauld / Pierre Nicole: L'Art de Penser. La Logique de Port Royal. Edited by Herbert E. Brekle and Bruno Baron von Freytag Löringhoff. Frommann-Holzboog, Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, 1967.

in French

• Les visionnaires. Liège 1667
• Essais de morale. 12 vols. Paris around 1714
  • Volume 11: Traité de l'éducation d'un prince.
  • in German: Moral attempts. 6 vols. Bamberg & Würzburg 1782 ff.

literature

• [Claude-Pierre Goujet]: Pierre Nicole: Continuation of the Essais de morale. Vol. 14: contenant La Vie de M. Nicole et L'Histoire de ses Ouvrages. New edition. Liège 1767 ( digitized in Google book search).

Web links

Wikisource: en: Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) / Pierre Nicole  - Sources and full texts

• Works by and about Pierre Nicole  in the German Digital Library