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Its defense of living forces and its implied forecast into dynamics as well as her methodological grounding of scientific knowledge as hypothetical, impacted philosophy and science. Reality must by nature escape us. What we perceive are phenomena. Du Châtelet explains the function of space and time to trace us back to the origin of phenomena. Her influence on Kant is evident. Next to her writings in physics, mathematics, philosophy, language, and logic, she contributed to morality and ethics. Du Châtelet left an opus of quite systematic breadth. This impressive publishing activity excels in the amount of its scientific and philosophical production to which a vast collection of manuscripts must be added.She argued against prejudice and idolatry in philosophy and science. Science is a cooperative undertaking over history and beyond nations. Her moral writings align with ideas of the French materialists. Du Châtelet translated and commented on Newton’s Principia, preparing thus the fertile soil of the generation of physicists to come in France.","lang":"eng"}],"department":[{"_id":"615"},{"_id":"14"},{"_id":"519"}],"user_id":"14931","_id":"34707","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"keyword":["aura Bassi Luise Gottsched Immanuel Kant Dourtous de Mairan Johann II Bernoulli Algarotti Buffon d’Alembert La Mettrie Principle of contradiction Hypotheses Enlightenment Leibniz-Clarke Correspondence Living forces Dead forces","happiness Space Imaginary beings Monads Epicurus Ethics Women philosophers Newton’s laws Principia Motion inertia Active force Vis viva Vis mortua Hypothetic reasoning Hypotheses","a priori principles","Experience","Dead forces","Living forces","Energy Dynamics"],"publication_identifier":{"isbn":["9783319207919","9783319207919"]},"publication_status":"published","citation":{"ama":"Hagengruber R. Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749). In: <i>Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>. Springer International Publishing; 2021. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1\">10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>","ieee":"R. Hagengruber, “Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749),” in <i>Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021.","chicago":"Hagengruber, Ruth. “Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749).” In <i>Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>.","apa":"Hagengruber, R. (2021). Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749). In <i>Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>. Springer International Publishing. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>","bibtex":"@inbook{Hagengruber_2021, place={Cham}, title={Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749)}, DOI={<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1\">10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>}, booktitle={Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences}, publisher={Springer International Publishing}, author={Hagengruber, Ruth}, year={2021} }","mla":"Hagengruber, Ruth. “Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749).” <i>Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>, Springer International Publishing, 2021, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1\">10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1</a>.","short":"R. Hagengruber, in: Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2021."},"year":"2021","place":"Cham","date_created":"2022-12-21T11:54:55Z","author":[{"first_name":"Ruth","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-6335","last_name":"Hagengruber","full_name":"Hagengruber, Ruth","id":"198"}],"publisher":"Springer International Publishing","date_updated":"2023-01-12T10:06:49Z","doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1","title":"Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749)"},{"publication_identifier":{"isbn":["ISBN 978-88-7000-877-7"]},"quality_controlled":"1","publication_status":"published","year":"2020","page":"331-353","citation":{"mla":"Hagengruber, Ruth. “Pressure on Enlightenment. Bible Critics from Nogarola to Du Châtelet.” <i>Dianoia 31, No. XXV</i>, 2020, pp. 331–53.","bibtex":"@article{Hagengruber_2020, title={Pressure on Enlightenment. Bible Critics from Nogarola to Du Châtelet}, journal={Dianoia 31, no. XXV}, author={Hagengruber, Ruth}, year={2020}, pages={331–353} }","short":"R. Hagengruber, Dianoia 31, No. XXV (2020) 331–353.","ama":"Hagengruber R. Pressure on Enlightenment. Bible Critics from Nogarola to Du Châtelet. <i>Dianoia 31, no XXV</i>. Published online 2020:331-353.","apa":"Hagengruber, R. (2020). Pressure on Enlightenment. Bible Critics from Nogarola to Du Châtelet. <i>Dianoia 31, No. XXV</i>, 331–353.","ieee":"R. Hagengruber, “Pressure on Enlightenment. Bible Critics from Nogarola to Du Châtelet,” <i>Dianoia 31, no. XXV</i>, pp. 331–353, 2020.","chicago":"Hagengruber, Ruth. “Pressure on Enlightenment. Bible Critics from Nogarola to Du Châtelet.” <i>Dianoia 31, No. XXV</i>, 2020, 331–53."},"date_updated":"2022-11-25T20:27:36Z","date_created":"2020-12-08T15:34:45Z","author":[{"first_name":"Ruth","full_name":"Hagengruber, Ruth","id":"198","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-6335","last_name":"Hagengruber"}],"title":"Pressure on Enlightenment. Bible Critics from Nogarola to Du Châtelet","conference":{"name":"Conference European Society of  Early Modern Philosophy","location":"Bologna "},"publication":"Dianoia 31, no. XXV","type":"journal_article","abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"The Enlightenment is well known for its critical analysis of the Bible. Though the Renaissance sources have been acknowledged as an inspiration of this movement, the Querelle des Femmes and its critique of the Bible has never been considered as a possible catalyst for the enlightened philosophical discourse. For centuries women have fought against interpretations of the Bible.This paper argues that the Querelle des Femmes criticized the Bible not only because of its patriarchal content but also criticized philosophical thinking that, for supporting the views from the Bible and its misogynist stance, misusing the instruments of rational philosophy. Arguments from 1400-1750, from Nogarola to Du Châtelet proof women philosophers’ fight in favour of a critique of the bible from a rational point of view, reflecting also on the status of what it meant, to argue rationally."}],"status":"public","_id":"20690","department":[{"_id":"519"}],"user_id":"49063","keyword":["Keywords: Bible critics","Isotta Nogarola","Querelle des femmes","Enlightenment","Émilie Du Châtelet."],"language":[{"iso":"eng"}]}]