Marin Cureau de la Chambre is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Marin Cureau de la Chambre as French philosopher.
Marin Cureau de la Chambre was born at Le Mans in 1594. His recorded nationality is France. He studied at Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier.
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.
Marin Cureau de la Chambre died in 1669, aged 75. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
