Diderot et Voltaire lecteurs de Montaigne : du jugement suspendu à la raison libre

Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale (forthcoming)
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Il s'agit d'ajouter un chapitre à l'histoire du pyrrhonisme. Au xviiie siècle, et sous la pression des critiques de Diderot qui tente de fonder la métaphysique matérialiste sur les « preuves expérimentales », Voltaire est obligé de trancher entre les deux définitions de l'épochè qui sont énoncées par Sextus Empiricus et conservées par Montaigne : le sage sceptique ne peut plus affirmer sa liberté par une suspension passive du jugement, mais il se livre à une enquête active, afin de démontrer que la physique newtonienne se laisse aussi bien interpréter en un sens déiste et finaliste qu'en un sens matérialiste et athée. The purpose is to add a chapter to the story of pyrrhonism. During the XVIIIth century, and under the pressure of the criticisms of Diderot who tries to found the materialist metaphysics on the « experimental proofs », Voltaire is forced to choose between the two definitions of épochè which Sextus Empiricus and Montaigne asserted: the sceptical philosopher may no more affirm his freedom by passively suspending his opinion, but he conducts an active inquiry, and he demonstrates that the newtonian physics can be understood as a deist and finalist philosophy, or as a materialist and atheist one.

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