出版社：Ecole normale supérieure - Lettres et sciences humaines
摘要：Although the early modern renewal of scepticism is often reduced to that of pyrrhonism, it is important to not forget that academic scepticism was also revived at the end of the 17th century in the person of Simon Foucher. Foucher believed that Academism was the only philosophy capable of overcoming the epistemological dead-ends to which Cartesian dualism had led. In this paper, I shall present the reasons why Foucher thought that Academism needed to be revived, how he understood this trend of thought, and the way he intended to use it against what he considered to be the new form of dogmaticism, namely, Descartes’ philosophy. I shall show that it is in the name of a sceptical conception of philosophy, understood as a methodic search for truth devoid of any prejudices, that Foucher attacked his contemporaries’ dualism. Thus anticipating the “reasonable pyrrhonism” that became one of the mottos of the following century, Foucher brings to light the fact that only Academic philosophy was able to provide the scientific spirit of the new times with a sceptical methodology adapted to its needs.
