scholarly journals « Manuscrit de Mr Dangicourt » : système métaphysique néantiste d’un disciple de Leibniz

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Timo Kaitaro
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Original Material ◽  
University Library ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Universe

<p>Dangicourt&rsquo;s Manuscript: The metaphysical system of nothingness from a disciple of Leibniz</p><p>The collection of clandestine philosophical manuscripts at the Helsinki University Library contains, among other typical seventeenth and early eighteenth century texts, an exchange of letters between Pierre Dangicourt and Alphonse Des Vignoles (1725&minus;1726). Both belong to the circle of thinkers close to the Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Starting from some mathematical conjectures concerning the incommensurability of the sides and the diagonal of a geometrical square, Dangicourt develops a metaphysical system according to which &lsquo;original material&rsquo; (la mati&egrave;re originale) of the universe is &lsquo;nothingness&rsquo; (n&eacute;ant) and criticises the view according to which the universe consists of extended and existing composite parts. Des Vignoles presents a criticism of Dangicourt&rsquo;s ideas. In a letter to Dangicourt, Leibniz also presents criticisms of Dangcourt&rsquo;s system by insisting on the fictional nature of mathematical abstractions.</p>

Ulan-Ude Manuscript Kanjur

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 241-269
Author(s):  
Kirill Alekseev ◽  
Nikolay Tsyrempilov ◽  
Timur Badmatsyrenov
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Siberian Branch ◽  
Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Tibetan Studies ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Made In

This study investigates the Mongolian manuscript Kanjur preserved at the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The manuscript previously belonged to the Chesan Buddhist monastery of Central Transbaikalia and was brought to the Buruchkom, a first academic institute of the Republic of Buryat-Mongolia (Ulan-Ude) by the eminent Buryat writer Khotsa Namsaraev. The manuscript is an almost complete copy of the Ligdan Khan’s Kanjur presumably made in the late seventeenth to early eighteenth century in Beijing. The article presents a description, analysis and brief catalogue of Ulan-Ude manuscript Kanjur.

The Natural World

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Clemens Young
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Charles Darwin ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Religious Impulse ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Universe

In the early eighteenth century nature seemed to be governed by universal mathematical laws benevolently established by the Creator. Over the next hundred years, philosophical and cultural changes led to a new experience of nature’s meaning. Kant concluded that the tension between inert matter and living beings, between necessity and freedom, means that we cannot ultimately understand nature (the ground and origin of everything). Schelling’s idealism and its presumption of an immanent pre-existing harmony of mind and nature undermined this conclusion and ultimately led to new expectations for nature. Romantic ideas, from Schleiermacher (who located the religious impulse in the intuition of the universe as a whole) to Goethe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Emerson, and Thoreau (with their faith that an encounter with nature could be suffused with holiness) came to be central to the modern environmental movement. The ideas of Charles Darwin changed how Christians came to understand the natural world.

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