08-21-2023, 11:27 AM
The Alchemical Order: Reason, Passions, Alchemy and the Social World in the Philosophy and Cosmology of Jean d’Espagnet
by Alexander Scott Dessens.
"Jean d’Espagnet (c. 1564–1637?) was a magistrate and presiding judge at the parlement of Bordeaux in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He served on the court from 1590 until retiring in 1615, from 1600 as a président, a venal office of significant power and social standing. After retirement he wrote three books which comprise his literary and intellectual legacy.Together they speak to the fertile philosophical ground of the late Renaissance and present a vision of order and God’s cosmos deeply influenced by Neoplatonism, Hermetism, Paracelsianism, Neostoicism, and medieval alchemy, as well as d’Espagnet’s judicial education and social experience as a magistrate. This dissertation explores the foundations of d’Espagnet’s philosophy of nature, tracing the development of certain philosophical ideas from ancient sources such as the Platonic and Hermetic traditions through medieval and Renaissance philosophers like Ramon Lull, Pseudo-Geber, and Marsilio Ficino to d’Espagnet and his contemporaries."
https://hammer.purdue.edu/articles/thesi...t/19666323
by Alexander Scott Dessens.
"Jean d’Espagnet (c. 1564–1637?) was a magistrate and presiding judge at the parlement of Bordeaux in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. He served on the court from 1590 until retiring in 1615, from 1600 as a président, a venal office of significant power and social standing. After retirement he wrote three books which comprise his literary and intellectual legacy.Together they speak to the fertile philosophical ground of the late Renaissance and present a vision of order and God’s cosmos deeply influenced by Neoplatonism, Hermetism, Paracelsianism, Neostoicism, and medieval alchemy, as well as d’Espagnet’s judicial education and social experience as a magistrate. This dissertation explores the foundations of d’Espagnet’s philosophy of nature, tracing the development of certain philosophical ideas from ancient sources such as the Platonic and Hermetic traditions through medieval and Renaissance philosophers like Ramon Lull, Pseudo-Geber, and Marsilio Ficino to d’Espagnet and his contemporaries."
https://hammer.purdue.edu/articles/thesi...t/19666323