Artigo
Tensions between freedom and equality in the Discourse on the freedom to think of Anthony Collins
Fecha
2015-03-01Registro en:
Dialogue-canadian Philosophical Review. New York: Cambridge Univ Press, v. 54, n. 1, p. 91-119, 2015.
0012-2173
10.1017/S0012217315000311
WOS:000354056600005
Autor
Noisette, Kim [UNIFESP]
Institución
Resumen
Le Discours sur la liberte de penser (1713) d'Anthony Collins revendique un droit egal, pour chaque etre humain, d'examiner librement toute proposition. Pour autant, ce droit n'est pas tres clair et Collins en defend successivement trois versions, donnant un role plus ou moins large a l'egalite. La tension entre la liberte revendiquee et une egalite dont la place varie va en s'accroissant au fil du Discours. Il s'agit d'un exemple de developpement encore embryonnaire d'une problematique qui, au fil du XVIIIe siecle, prendra une importance croissante.Anthony Collins' Discourse on Freethinking (1713) claims an equal right of examining freely any proposition for each human being. However, the right he claims isn't always clear, and a close reading shows that, in fact, he successively defends three versions of this right, each weighing the role of equality differently. in the first section, where both values appear consistent with one another, claimed freedom and equality of rights are, in fact, in tension with one another and Collins hesitates too much to solve anything. Beyond the Discourse, this exemplifies the early development of a problem that will become increasingly important in the Late Enlightenment.