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What is wrong with the ideas of Descartes and Spinoza

POIRET, Petrus.
Cogitationum rationalium de Deo, anima, et malo libri quatuor. In quibus quid de hisce Cartesius, ejusque sequaces, boni aut secus senserint, omnisque philosophiae certiora fundamenta, atque imprimis tota metaphysica verior, continentur; nec non Benedicti de Spinoza atheismus & exitiales errores funditus exstirpantur.

Title-page in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut intials and head- and tailpieces. Woodcut in text.

Title-page in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut intials and head- and tailpieces. Woodcut in text.

Title-page in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut intials and head- and tailpieces. Woodcut in text.

Title-page in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut intials and head- and tailpieces. Woodcut in text.



Amsterdam, Typographia Blauiana, 1685. 4to. Vellum over boards with title written on spine. Title-page in red and black with woodcut printer's device, woodcut intials and head- and tailpieces. Woodcut in text. (52), 82; 808, (3) pp.

Second enlarged edition of a philosophical and theological work of Petrus (Pierre) Poiret (1646-1719) in which he criticizes the ideas of Descartes and Spinoza (1632-1677). The first edition dates from 1677. Poiret, who was born in Metz, studied philopsophy and theology at the university of Basel from 1664 onwards. In this period he was highly attracted to the metaphysical ideas of Descartes. Later however, when he became a minister at St. Annashoeve in 1670, he became more and more interested in the mystical writings of Thomas à Kempis, Tauler and others. Under the influence of the visionary and mystic Antoinette Bourignon, whose biography he wrote, he turned from being a Cartesian to a devout mystic. Poiret really provides one of the most important links between French mysticism (Quietism) and German pietism. It is from this point of view that he attacked especially the radical consistency of Spinoza's rationalistic method and the criticism of religion in Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus.

Good copy.- (Citations from Plinius and from another work of Poiret from 1694 on the first leaves, on the last 5 fly-leaves a set up for an extra index).
Molhuysen-Blok V, 524; Herzberger pp. 57-58; Graesse, V, p. 385;  not in Thysse-Schouten.

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Descartes  Philosophy  Spinoza  Theology 

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