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The skeptic Pierre-Daniel Huet's "Censura philosophiae cartesianae" (1689) is the main entire, unrelenting and devastating critique of Descartes ever. It incisively captures all of the matters that now curiosity readers of Descartes: the strategy of doubt, the cogito, readability and distinctness as standards of fact, the circularity of the Meditations, proofs of God's lifestyles, and so on. obviously, the paintings provoked nice controversy one of the Cartesians, who have been implicated in quite a few capacities - Nicolas Malebranche because the occasional reason for the book, and Pierre-Sylvain Regis because the leader defender of the Cartesian camp. What emerges during this learn of the talk is a heroic, defensible Descartes. He possesses hitherto unappreciated solutions to the criticisms that experience bedeviled his philosophy from his time to ours.
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Finally, a version of Huet’s annotations was published by Popkin. His view, however, seems to be that Huet was already an anti-Cartesian by the time he fi rst read the Search. 20. Dini also thinks that H uet’s antiCartesianism predates his reading of Malebranche. 236. But the evidence cited for this claim is not convincing: the conversations with Cormis, w ell before the 1670 mo ve to P aris, that led to a car eful reading of S extus Empiricus. Although the text of the Memoirs is not without a cer tain ambiguity, there is no mention of any conversion to skepticism, much less of a rejection of Cartesianism.
Inventaire. ”53 Foucher’s hope would seem to be that H uet would sho w Descartes’s philosophy to be detrimental to Christianity just to the extent that it departs from what Foucher took to be the principles of Academic skepticism. 54 It looks as if F oucher at this point was off ering, or asking, to dedicate the work to Huet, placing it under his protection in the fashion of seventeenth-century protocols. In the event, the Apologie appeared without a dedication or the epistolar y form, and signifi cantly altered in wording from the draft of this letter.
There may be no more important a text for understanding why Huet wrote the Censura. Huet speaks thr oughout of the “ followers” of D escartes, in the plural. The name of neither Malebranche nor any other Cartesian except, in passing, Henricus Regius, is mentioned, her e or anywher e else in the wor k. But, clearly, it is primarily , and perhaps ev en ex clusively, M alebranche who is the target of H uet’s observations. The most ob vious indication is Huet’s citation of the phrase “silence of the passions,” which is, of course, a signature expression of the O ratorian.