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Charron, Pierre (pyĕr shärôN`), 1541–1603, French Roman Catholic theologian and philosopher. He was an important contributor to 17th-century theological thought, combining an individual form of skepticism with a strict adherence to Catholicism based on the emphasis of the importance of faith over reason. After practicing law for several years, he took orders and soon gained a reputation as an eloquent preacher. He became chaplain to Margaret, wife of Henry IV. His Traité des trois vérités (1594) set forth proofs, first, that there is a God and that a true religion exists; second, that no other religion than that of the Christians is true; and, third, that in the Roman Catholic Church alone is salvation found. In 1600 he published a collection of 16 sermons. In his most famous work, the Traité de la sagesse (1601), the influence of Montaigne, with whom he had a close relationship, appears. The skepticism of that work awoke criticism and later a summary and apology, Petit traité de la sagesse, was published. |
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Alberti (Momus), Machiavelli (Principe and Discorsi), Francesco Guicciardini (Ricordi), Shakespeare (Hamlet), Francois La Mothe Le Veyer (Dialogues faits a l'imitation des anciens), and from Pierre Charron (De la sagesse). Pierre Charron, Christian Chartier, Pierre Simoneau, Louis-Claude Trudel, Pierre Paquette and Robert Lorange. His reading of lessons from Theodor Zwinger's Theatrum vitae humanae--a work of clear Aristotelian influence--Justus Lipsius and Pierre Charron shows how the essayist alters the Aristotelian-Ciceronian definition of prudence centered on foresight by "reconceptualizing judgment in all its problematic necessity" (44). |
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