Critica and Aufklärung. The disputation over Moses (1685-1686): Jean Le Clerc against Richard Simon. This paper shows how the contrasting opinions of Richard Simon and Jean Le Clerc about Moses represent a bridge between the critica tradition and its evolution during the Enlightenment, a period in which knowledge is more widely spread than in the respublica literaria. This controversy contribute to the enhancement of the studies of the Aufklärer and, at the same time, to the ambiguity of the European Culture in the XVIII Century. This happens both with the evaluation of philology that becomes a part of theology, and with the splitting of theology from religion. In this way religion becomes the truth of theology, concealed from philosophy that still remained the real disguised mover of the process. The treated subjects are the scientific research methods in Biblical history; the controversy about the author of the Pentateuch; the hermeneutics principle of the mens auctoris; the idea of tradition, and finally Descartes and Spinoza’s philosophies and their reception.
Critica e Aufklärung. La controversia su Mosè (1685-1686): Jean Le Clerc contro Richard Simon
BORDOLI, ROBERTO
2017
Abstract
Critica and Aufklärung. The disputation over Moses (1685-1686): Jean Le Clerc against Richard Simon. This paper shows how the contrasting opinions of Richard Simon and Jean Le Clerc about Moses represent a bridge between the critica tradition and its evolution during the Enlightenment, a period in which knowledge is more widely spread than in the respublica literaria. This controversy contribute to the enhancement of the studies of the Aufklärer and, at the same time, to the ambiguity of the European Culture in the XVIII Century. This happens both with the evaluation of philology that becomes a part of theology, and with the splitting of theology from religion. In this way religion becomes the truth of theology, concealed from philosophy that still remained the real disguised mover of the process. The treated subjects are the scientific research methods in Biblical history; the controversy about the author of the Pentateuch; the hermeneutics principle of the mens auctoris; the idea of tradition, and finally Descartes and Spinoza’s philosophies and their reception.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
