In class we discussed the different doubters of the Libertines and how they affected the rationalist thinkers and the religious and so on. We talked about how only one book was able to spark two different revolutions that extremely changed the way the clergymen thought in France.
FC: Who wrote Of Wisdom? Pierre Charron
DC: How does one book spark two revolutions: the French Catholic Counter-Reformation and the libertin erudits?
The book "Of Wisdom" set forth such a response because the book was very controversial. The book made the Index of Forbidden Books. That's a lot for one book. Of course it's gonna set forth a revolution for the French Catholics because the book condoned and expressed atheism.
ReplyDeleteFQ: What 4 mistakes did Hobbes say religion derived from?
1. Belief in ghosts.
2. Ignorance of second causes.
3. Devotion to what men fear
4. Taking of things casual for prognostics.
DQ: If you're a Hobbesian, why are you considered an Atheist?
I completely understand standing up for ones religion but a revolution I think is completely unnessary and I know that me personally would never get to that point and do things that involved destroying businesses and other criminal activities involved in a revolution. This revolution was basically over a book, which doesn't make too much sense.
ReplyDeleteSo basically this guy had so much influence in his writings that he was able to move an entire nation through his writings to spark such a violent revolution. Someone had to believe in what he was saying in order for these events to take place. I will note that if the book was so controversial I feel that this man could be related to Hitler in the ways that he believed so strongly in an idea that he could shape the minds of others to follow his belief.
ReplyDeleteFC: What did Hobbes believe about people in the seventeenth century? He believed that their lives were "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
DC: Why did nearly every philosopher in the seventeenth century believe in the idea of atheism.