Paradoxical Treatise for the Students of Aristotle

Japanese: 《アリストテレス学徒にたいする逆説的論考》 - ありすとてれすがくとにたいするぎゃくせつてきろんこう
Paradoxical Treatise for the Students of Aristotle

…He was born as a farmer's son near the small city of Digne in southern France, and became the rector of the church there and a professor of mathematics at the Royal Institute of Paris (now the Collège de France) before dying in Paris. In 1624, he published his first work, Paradoxical Treatise Against Aristotle's Students, in which he attacked Aristotelian philosophy from a skeptical standpoint. This attitude of denial of metaphysics and omnipotence of reason became the basis of his thought for a long time, and in 1642 he debated with Descartes over Descartes' Meditations, and also influenced Locke, the founder of empiricism. From around 1626, he turned his attention to the theory of Epicurus, which had long been taboo, as the best hypothesis for explaining the world and human beings, and wrote the large work Collected Philosophies (1659) and other works, attempting to harmonize this with Christianity. …

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…南仏の小都市ディーニュ近くの農民の子として生まれ,同地の教会の主任司祭,パリの王立学院(現在のコレージュ・ド・フランス)の数学の教授になり,パリで没した。1624年に処女作《アリストテレス学徒にたいする逆説的論考》を発表して,懐疑主義の立場からアリストテレス哲学を攻撃したが,この形而上学否定,理性の全能否定の態度は,長くその思想の基調となり,42年にはデカルトの《省察》をめぐってデカルトと論争し,また経験論の開祖ロックにも影響を与えた。1626年ころから世界と人間を説明する最良の仮説として,長らく禁忌の思想であったエピクロスの学説に注目し,大著《哲学集成》(1659)その他を書いて,これとキリスト教との調和をはかった。…

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