LEIBENLIG · Leibniz’s Enlightenment. Debates on Faith and Reason in Early modern Europe, 1668-1710""
FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)
- Duration
- 2011-09-01 → 2013-08-31
- EU contribution
- €254,775
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MC-IEF
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Results in brief
Leibniz's Enlightenment. Debates on Faith and Reason in Early modern Europe, 1668-1710
The LEIBENLIG project is a historical reconstruction of the philosophical debates concerning faith and reason in the Early Modern Republic of Letters as seen through the eyes of the German polymath G.W. Leibniz (1646 - 1716). It is a strongly interdisciplinary and draws on research from both philosophy, history, theology, comparative literature, and the history of science. It has been conducted at the Institut d'histoire de la pensée classique (CERPHI UMR 5037), a research unit based at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and was directed by Pierre-François Moreau. The project contains two parts. First, a reconstruction of the conceptual framework that governs Leibniz's analysis, evaluation and strategic approach to other thinkers, positions and doctrines in the Early Modern Republic of Letters, with special emphasis on the controversies concerning faith and reason. It also provides an original account of Leibniz's position as a philosopher in the Early Modern Republic of Letters, a powerful proponent of what is today referred to as the moderate Enlightenment. Part two contains a detailed study of Leibniz's engagement with a series of other contemporary positions, in particular those of Pierre-Sylvain Régis, Pierre-Daniel Huet, Pierre Bayle, Henry More, and the set of thinkers known as the 'erudite libertines'. The results of the project has been presented at some seventeen events (workshops, seminar, conferences), in France, United States of America, Costa Rica, England, Belgium and Italy. Published or forthcoming results include five book chapters, one peer-reviewed article, and one co-edited volume. Work still under review or in progress includes one peer-reviewed article and one major monograph entitled Les Lumières de Leibniz. Quatre études en perspectivisme historique: Controverses avec Huet, Régis, Bayle, et More. The monograph includes the development of an original methodology for the study of the history of philosophy and four case studies. Complete draft planned for September 2013. The results of the project are of interest for anyone working in the history of philosophy, and in particular in the early modern period and the Enlightenment. For contact and further information, please write the principal researcher Mogens Lærke at mogenslaerke@hotmail.com.
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Project objective
The project is a historical reconstruction of the philosophical debates concerning faith and reason in the Early Modern Republic of Letters as seen through the eyes of the German polymath G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716). It will be conducted at the Centre d’Etudes en Rhétorique, Philosophie et Histoire des Idees (CERPHI UMR 5037), a research unit based at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon. It will be supervised by the director of CERPHI, Professor Pierre-François Moreau. The project contains three parts. First, it reconstructs the conceptual framework, which governs Leibniz’s analysis, evaluation and strategic approach to other thinkers, positions and doctrines in the early modern Republic of Letters, with special emphasis on the controversies concerning faith and reason. This provides a historically immanent methodological framework for the study of those debates. It also provides an original account of Leibniz’s position as a philosopher in the Early Modern Republic of Letters, a powerful proponent of what is today referred to as the “moderate Enlightenment.” In Part II, I study in detail Leibniz’s engagement with a series of other, contemporary theoretical positions on the relations between faith and reason. These positions include Padouan Averroism, Mechanism, Naturalism and Materialism, Catholic Fideism, Erudite Libertinism, Theological and Philosophical Enthusiasm, Rational theology, and Calvinist Scepticism. The seven case studies currently planned form the bulk of the project. Finally, in Part III, the project includes a set of appendices containing translations into English of a series of generally unknown French and Latin texts by Leibniz. The project is a strongly interdisciplinary and draws on research from both philosophy, history, theology, comparative literature, and the history of science.""
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Participants
- ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE DE LYON · LyonCoordinatorFrance
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