Qu’est-ce qu’être déiste ? Suivi d’un appendice sur la fausse attribution à Humphrey Prideaux de A Letter to the Deists (1696)
- Publication type: Journal article
- Journal: La Lettre clandestine. Déismes et déistes à l’âge classique
2013, n° 21 - Author: Jaffro (Laurent)
- Abstract: The author poses the question not of « Who is a deist ? » but of what it means to be a deist. To be a deist is to claim a right to that title. Deism is essentially declarative. That does not mean that the deist is not hiding something; he may well, for example, be hiding his atheism. If deism is the claim to a name, it is highly unlikely that deism can be defined as an intellectual movement characterised by a given body of doctrine. Lastly, the question of deism culminates in the development of the category « nominal deism » as opposed to « real deism ». In an appendix, the author treats the question of the false attribution to Humphrey Prideaux of A Letter to the Deists (1696).
- Pages: 273 to 289
- Journal: The Clandestine Letter
- CLIL theme: 3129 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Philosophie -- Philosophie moderne
- EAN: 9782812412479
- ISBN: 978-2-8124-1247-9
- ISSN: 2271-720X
- DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-1247-9.p.0273
- Publisher: Classiques Garnier
- Online publication: 09-11-2013
- Periodicity: Annual
- Language: French