Jean-François Senault is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Jean-François Senault as French philosopher.
Jean-François Senault was born at Antwerp in 1599. His recorded nationality is France.
Recovered classical texts and the printing press reopened questions that had been treated as settled for centuries.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Jean-François Senault died in 1672, aged 73. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
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