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Empiricist Theories of SpaceThe Ideality of Space in Enlightenment Empiricism: The Idéologues’ Contribution

Empiricist Theories of Space: The Ideality of Space in Enlightenment Empiricism: The Idéologues’... [Last representatives of the French movement of ‘construction’ of space starting from unextended sensory elements, the idéologues played an important role in the movement of metaphysical construction of space in the mind. Succeeding Kant, they offer a sort of obscure and little-known alternative to the usual way the history of the evolution of the way space was conceived during the Enlightenment is told, a story whose main thread is that this evolution culminated with Kant, whose philosophy alone was capable of synthesizing the knowledge acquired by the empiricists and Leibnizian idealism. On the contrary, the idéologues tried to defend the idea that there was an alternative future to that offered by nascent German idealism. The object of this article is therefore to demonstrate in what way Condillac’s philosophy can be thought of as an ‘empiricist’ alternative to Kantianism with regards to space and in what way, after Kant and Condillac, the idea of space and movement were related. This article will more particularly focus on how the idéologues replaced the classical empiricist analysis of the idea of space with one proposing that forming the idea of space is based on the sensation of movement. In that, they initiated a way out of the limits set by an analysis of signs. Their very loyalty to the idea of a genesis of a space of signs, in their immediate aftermath, however, was at the origin of a split between a sensory and an intellectual ideal of space, whereas the aim of their empiricist idealism was to propose their fundamental union.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Empiricist Theories of SpaceThe Ideality of Space in Enlightenment Empiricism: The Idéologues’ Contribution

Part of the Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Book Series (volume 54)
Editors: Berchielli, Laura
Schwartz, Elisabeth
Empiricist Theories of Space — Nov 4, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
ISBN
978-3-030-57619-6
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187 –218
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10.1007/978-3-030-57620-2_9
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Abstract

[Last representatives of the French movement of ‘construction’ of space starting from unextended sensory elements, the idéologues played an important role in the movement of metaphysical construction of space in the mind. Succeeding Kant, they offer a sort of obscure and little-known alternative to the usual way the history of the evolution of the way space was conceived during the Enlightenment is told, a story whose main thread is that this evolution culminated with Kant, whose philosophy alone was capable of synthesizing the knowledge acquired by the empiricists and Leibnizian idealism. On the contrary, the idéologues tried to defend the idea that there was an alternative future to that offered by nascent German idealism. The object of this article is therefore to demonstrate in what way Condillac’s philosophy can be thought of as an ‘empiricist’ alternative to Kantianism with regards to space and in what way, after Kant and Condillac, the idea of space and movement were related. This article will more particularly focus on how the idéologues replaced the classical empiricist analysis of the idea of space with one proposing that forming the idea of space is based on the sensation of movement. In that, they initiated a way out of the limits set by an analysis of signs. Their very loyalty to the idea of a genesis of a space of signs, in their immediate aftermath, however, was at the origin of a split between a sensory and an intellectual ideal of space, whereas the aim of their empiricist idealism was to propose their fundamental union.]

Published: Nov 4, 2020

Keywords: Idéologues; Space; Movement

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