Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 27:29Example of naive finalism: the melon would prove providence because it is pre-cut to be shared.
Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Appears in 4 videos · 4 passages, 1 of them in depth.
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Who is this?Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (19 January 1737, in Le Havre – 21 January 1814, in Éragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel, Paul et Virginie, a very popular 18th-century classic of French literature.
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Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?
Season 2 · 15 Feb 2016#2.1 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 1:24:18Lesser-known example of teleology.
Season 2 · 15 Feb 2016#2.2 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 13:29A reader of Rousseau: the pleasure of watching bad weather outside near a good fire.
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