Sir Thomas Browne : the modernity of a seventeenth-century english thinker - El Hadji Cheikh Kandji

Sir Thomas Browne : the modernity of a seventeenth-century english thinker

El Hadji Cheikh Kandji

L'Harmattan | août 2019
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Sir Thomas Browne

The Modernity of a Seventeenth-Century

English Thinker

This essay sheds light on a relatively neglected 17th-century English thinker, Sir Thomas Browne ; and rereads his works with modem lenses. It highlights his insightful contribution to modem thought. Browne is a man of the modem age. His legacy to modem thought clearly appears through his works. He raises the issue of the relationship between science and religion, and posits archeology and anthropology as disciplines that help better understand past, present, and future societies. Browne ultimately cornes up with epistemological premises which anticipate the Popperian concepts of testability, falsifiability and refutability applied to truth. He also anticipates Darwin and definitely announces Bachelard in so far as he regards errors as « epistemological obstacles » which hinder man in his quest for truth. From a semantic perspective, it is noteworthy to point out that Sir Thomas Browne coined hundreds of words, some of which are still in use in modem discourse : medical, electricity, suicide, insecurity, deductive, exhaustion...

Résumé

Un essai dans lequel l'auteur présente le penseur du XVIIe siècle et expose ses oeuvres et ses contributions à différents domaines tels que la science, la religion ou encore l'anthropologie. ©Electre 2024

Caractéristiques

Éditeur(s)
Date de parution
12 août 2019
Rayon
Philosophie, éthique
EAN
9782343179742
Nombre de pages
244 pages
Reliure
Broché
Dimensions
22.0 cm x 14.0 cm x 1.4 cm
Poids
312 g