Descartes died in Stockholm on 11 February 1650 from pneumonia contracted during the freezing cold mornings spent in his philosophical colloquia with Queen Christina. According to Chanut, who stayed with him until the very end, his death was "sweet and very much like his life". These words have always been held to be of fundamental importance in the different accounts of the philosopher's death, especially in Adrien Baillet's Vie de Monsieur Descartes. The literature that flourished around Descartes' death has always (...) presented this ‘trespassing' as the final declaration of his philosophy, inspired by those principles he had theorized in his works as a philosophy of life and that he would play out even in the crowning moment as an ethic of wisdom which has to be lived out in the first person, and for the last time. (shrink)

Existe-t-il une logique de Descartes? Cette question, encore ouverte et discutée dans le débat contemporain sur la pensée du philosophe de la méthode, a toujours constitué un des problèmes les plus controverses du cartésianisme dès les tout premiers temps. Dès l’origine en effet, la communauté scientifique s’était interrogée et dès l’origine elle s’était partagée : d’un côté les critiques du philosophe avaient remarqué l’absence d’un traitement adéquat de la logique dans ses textes et avaien...