biography
pronunciation:
[sharõ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1541–1603)
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| biography:
| Roman Catholic theologian, born in Paris, France. He became a lawyer to the Parlement, then turned to theology and became a renowned preacher to Margaret of France, the queen of Navarre. He met and befriended Michel de Montaigne, from whom he acquired his sceptical tendency which, coupled with traditional Catholicism, is noted in his two major works Les Trois vérités (1593) and the lengthy De la sagesse (1601), influential in 17th-c France and England. He is remembered for his controversial form of scepticism, and his separation of ethics from religion as an independent philosophical discipline. |
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