By Richard John Fafara
ISBN-10: 0874626714
ISBN-13: 9780874626711
In 1921, Etienne Gilson, one of many maximum Christian philosophers on account that Thomas Aquinas, begun instructing on the Sorbonne. A twenty-three-year-old scholar, Henri Gouhier, quickly requested Gilson to direct his doctoral paintings at the nice seventeenth-century thinker Nicolas Malebranche. Gilson agreed. therefore begun a dating that ripened right into a very deep own friendship lasting greater than part a century. Gilson engaged in wide correspondence all through his lengthy lifestyles, yet little of it has noticeable the sunshine of day. The letters during this quantity, as a rule from Gilson, exhibit his impressive wisdom and intelligence, excessive common of scholarship, humorousness, remarkably special kind, and critical Catholicism. The letters additionally exhibit facets of Gilson the fellow in the back of the coed hitherto privy merely to scholars and shut associates.
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Gilson considered Brunschvicg his “formidable maître et ami” (Shook 1984, 170). A founding member of the Revue de métaphysique et de morale (1893) and the Société française de philosophie (1901), Brunschvicg participated in the session devoted to Gilson’s thesis on Descartes (Gilson 1914). Brunschvicg also suggested that Gilson prepare his edition of Descartes’s Discours de la méthode. See Gilson 1924e, 135. At a subsequent meeting of the Société, Gilson tangled with Brunschvicg on the question of atheism (Brunschvicg 1928).
Gilson 5 deepened his understanding of St. Bonaventure and culminated in a book (Gilson 1924a). For bibliographical details on Gilson’s seminars at the École Pratique, see Edie 1959, 18–34. 20, above. 28 Roustan’s project, initiated by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, had as its advisor Gilson’s former professor and friend, Professor Victor Delbos. The war precluded the completion of the proposed sixteen-volume edition of Malebranche. See Roustan 1938a and 1938b; see also Gouhier 1938b. For Gouhier situating Gilson-Gouhier Letters [Undated] 29 31 5 Observations that I would like to make: (1) If philosophy consists in metaphysics Malebranche did not have to learn it and will never learn any of it from Descartes; he derives his own from Saint Augustine.
63 The reference might be to a course on Malebranche. It is known that Gilson took extensive notes, apparently during 1924–1925, from Malebranche’s Entretiens sur la métaphysique. Included in the notes is Fr. Shook’s handwritten comment that these materials seem to have been used for a course on 50 The Malebranche Moment I have just read your preface; it is very good; I am very satisfied; it is good Gouhier. As to the affair Malebranche, you, of course, are free. From my point of view, this for you is a deadly, unavoidable exploitation, with no compensation.
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