The Reconfiguration of Natura and Ars in Cartesian Rhetoric and the Epistemological Reflections in the Prize Questions of the French Academies
Martin Urmann
Abstract:This article discusses the change in the relationship between natura and ars that occurred when Cartesian language theories penetrated conceptions of rhetoric in France during the 17 th century. In part one, the article considers the reception of Descartes by the French universities and collèges in order to explore what I call the epistemic transfer between Aristotelianism and the new Cartesian philosophy. The focus then shifts to Bernard Lamy's conception of rhetoric as presented in his principal work De l'ar… Show more
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