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Antoine Le Grand (1629 in Douai  1699 in London) was a French Recollect and Cartesian philosopher.

Antoine Le Grand
Born1629
Douai, Spanish Netherlands
Died1699 (aged 6970)
London, England
Region France

Life


Born in Douai, Spanish Netherlands, he was attached at an early age to the English community of St. Bonaventure's convent there, and became a Franciscan Recollect friar, and taught philosophy and divinity. Sent on the English mission, he resided for many years in Oxfordshire, and in 1695 he was tutor in the family of Henry Fermor of Tusmore. His advocacy of Cartesianism met with strong resistance from Samuel Parker, who would become bishop of Oxford.[1] Towards the close of his life he engaged in sharp controversies on metaphysical topics with John Sergeant, a secular priest. At the twenty-third chapter of his order, assembled in London on 9 July 1693, he was elected provincial, and he held that office till his death on 9 August 1699.[2]

He lived a studious and retired life. He is noted for the effort he made to render the approach of Descartes more apparently scholastic, to improve its reception with traditionalists.[3]


Works


His works are:


Notes


  1. s.v. 'Le Grand, Antoine' in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  2. Vere Claiborne Chappell (1992). Cartesian philosophers. Garland. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-8153-0577-4.
  3. "Antoine le Grand". The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. 2018.


Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Le Grand, Antoine". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.




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