«Leur aveuglement est systématique». Rôles de la cécité dans la critique et la construction des systèmes au XVIII e siècle

Dialogue 57 (4):791-812 (2018)
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This article examines the relationship between blindness and the Enlightenment concept of the system, arguing that blindness is used as a weapon to discredit 17th-century metaphysics, as well as a tool through which thought can take shape or even systematize itself apart from dogmatism. Philosophers use blindness metaphorically, thus equating systematics within the obscurity of ignorance; yet, with Diderot, they also demonstrate that philosophy, for better or for worse, is literally an affair of blindness.

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Science et métaphysique dans Descartes et Leibniz.Michel Fichant - 1998 - Paris: Presses Universitaires de France - PUF.
Œuvres complètes. Diderot, H. Dieckmann, J. Proust & J. Varloot - 1991 - Diderot Studies 24:210-211.

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