Jean-Pierre de Crousaz
Jean Pierre de Crousaz ( born April 13, 1663 Lausanne, † February 22, 1750 ) was a Swiss philosopher.
Crousaz been since 1699 professor of philosophy and mathematics, and twice Rector of the Académie de Lausanne. 1724 he left Lausanne because of theological disagreements and went for 2 years as a professor of philosophy and mathematics at the Dutch University of Groningen. From 1726 to 1732 he directed the education of Prince Frederick II of Hesse -Kassel. In 1738 he returned to Lausanne, where he was again professor of the Academy. Crousaz wrote numerous mathematical and philosophical writings.
He was an opponent of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle and the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Christian Wolff and fought the Monadology and the doctrine of pre-established harmony. In aesthetics Crousaz emphasized the unity in multiplicity. His " Traité du beau " (1714; " treatise on Beauty ") was an attempt to explain differences in subjective aesthetic views. At the suggestion of Cardinal André- Hercule de Fleury, he challenged the teachings of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle and the German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He also criticized Alexander Pope's " Essay on Man ." His correspondence remained unpublished, although about 2000 letters were found.
Works
- Nouvel essay de logique. Amsterdam in 1712, 2 vols ( often processed as Horatii logica, due to the choice of examples Horatius, 1740).
- Nouvelles maximes sur l' education of enfans. Amsterdam. 1718 ( in an ironic tone).
- Traité du beau. 1712, 2nd edition 1724.
- Nouvel essay de logique. Amsterdam in 1712, 2 vols ( and edited more often, logica as Horatii, because of the examples chosen from Horatius, 1740)
- Traité de l' éducation des enfans. The Hague in 1722, 2 vols
- La logique. 3rd edition. 1725th
- De l' esprit humain. 1730.
- Exam you Pyrrhonisme ancien et moderne. The Hague, 1733 ( against Bayle and others).
- Observations critiques sur l' abrégé de la logique de Christian Wolff. 1744.