La philosophie de Jacques le Fataliste
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The philosophy of Jacques le fataliste
Jacques’ fatalism, which is Stoicism mixed with Spinozism and repeated according to someone else, is a chorus which denounces the systematic spirit. Beyond the couple formed by the peasant Jacques, and his master, who is a sort of automaton and whose master Jacques is to a certain extent, Diderot’s position is to undermine from an essentially moral point of view self-control and any form of absolute. The unity of the individual is an illusion which we cannot rationalise without fallinig into the most dangerous type of madness.
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Dominique Lecourt, “La philosophie de Jacques le Fataliste”, Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie [Online], 26 | avril 1999, Online since 04 August 2007, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/rde/1021; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/rde.1021
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