L’histoire médiévale de la raison philosophique moderne (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)

Zusammenfassung: The eighteenth- and nineteenth-century academic discipline of the history of philosophy tells the story of philosophical reason from its origins in antiquity to its completion in modernity. Situating itself in a self-proclaimed “modern era”, this historicization of reason is based on a rationalization of history of philosophy, a rationalization that aimed at legitimating the superiority of European modernity over other cultures, notably Arabic, Chinese and African cultures. From 1780 onwards historians of philosophy and historians of culture distinguished (Indo-)European rationality from the Semitic cultures. European reason was defined both by a “Greek” philosophical component and by a Christian culture whose roots lay in the Middle Ages. In this construction, the Middle Ages and the Arabs occupied central places. The Middles Ages were indeed the historiographical place where Greek philosophy became Christian. As a “Semitic folk”, the Arabs were deprived of any kind of scientific or philosophical rationality, even though they received the heritage of Greek philosophy before the Latins did, precisely during the Middle Ages

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Französisch
• Notes: Annales : histoire, sciences sociales, 70e année (2015), no. 3, pages 667-711, issn: 0395-2649

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Geschichtsphilosophie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Freiburg
• (who): Universität
• (when): 2015
• Creator: König-Pralong, Catherine

Further information

• DOI: 10.6094/UNIFR/11281
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-112816
• Rights: Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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