Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721), philosopher,... - Lot 329 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721), philosopher, Jesuit and bishop of Avranches, member of the French Academy. 2 autograph manuscripts, with corrections and additions, 8 and 4 ff. in-4. Drafts of the plan and index of the Philosophical Treatise on the Weakness of the Human Spirit, (De Imbecillitate Mentis Humanae Ad Philosophos Contubernales), a major posthumous work (1723), which deeply divided his disciples, to the point that its authorship was contested, giving rise to a quarrel over the nature of Huet's scepticism. Manuscript abundantly corrected and worked. "First book. The truth can be known to human understanding, with the help of Reason, with perfect and complete certainty. Chapter I. It must be shown first: 1. What Philosophy is. 2. What human understanding is. 3. What Idea is. 4. what Thought is. 5. what Reason is. 6. what Truth is. 7. there are many kinds & many degrees of certainty. The Certainty of Faith perfects the Certainty of human nature. The rest of this manuscript is at the BNF under number 6682. In 1722, the abbot d'Olivet published Huetiana ou pensées diverses de M. Huet (1722)