The Rationality of Affirmation and Negation in Modern French Philosophy
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2012
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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This article refers to the rationality of affirmations and negations appearing in the philosophies of
Descartes and Voltaire who can be treated as followers of previous traditions that separated these
two modes of articulating rationality, including the traditions of antiquity. These modes became
somewhat of a rule first for Socrates, and later for his disciple, Plato. However, Descartes and Voltaire
slightly modified those traditions in order to adjust the rationalities they wrote about to the
needs and expectations of their contemporaries. Voltaire negated, among other things, the rationality
of Descartes’ philosophy, but there were also a significant number of critics before him who
expressed similar opinions, such as Leibniz or Kant.
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Człowiek i Społeczeństwo, 34/2012, s. 199-208