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Sir Thomas Browne

The Modernity of a Seventeenth-Century

English Thinker

This essay sheds light on a relatively neglected 17^th-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...

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Paru le : 12/08/2019

Thématique : Textes des Philosophes

Auteur(s) : Auteur : El Hadji Cheikh Kandji

Éditeur(s) : L'Harmattan

Collection(s) : Non précisé.

Série(s) : Non précisé.

ISBN : 978-2-343-17974-2

EAN13 : 9782343179742

Reliure : Broché

Pages : 244

Hauteur: 22.0 cm / Largeur 14.0 cm

Épaisseur: 1.4 cm

Poids: 312 g