Article De Blog Scientifique Année : 2023

How Ignorance Made Modern Science

Sandrine Parageau

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~ Sandrine Parageau I have in my dayes seene a hundred Artificers, and as many laborers, more wise and more happy, then some Rectors in the university, and whom I would rather resemble. 1 Michel de Montaigne Cover image of Sandrine Parageau's new book, used with the permission of Stanford University Press Montaigne's celebration of ignorance and simplicity in his erudite Essays (1580) may seem paradoxical at first, but such praises were not uncommon in the early modern period. Montaigne's friend, Pierre Charron, made similar claims two decades later in his widely read treatise Of Wisdome (De la sagesse, 1601; trans. Samson Lennard, 1608), in which he presented ignorant farmers and laborers as paragons of wisdom and virtue. Later in the century, in his unfinished dialogue The Search for Truth by Means of the Natural Light (1684 in Dutch, 1701 in Latin), Descartes featured the "conceptual persona" 2 of the Idiot, Eudoxus, who, he held, could more safely steer the uneducated gentleman Polyander towards truth than Epistemon, the traditional scholar.

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