---
_id: '34707'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Of the many outstanding female philosophers of the European Enlightenment,
    Emilie Du Châtelet excelled as a physicist, a philosopher, and a mathematician,
    as well as a Bible critic. She was famous in her lifetime and was not completely
    forgotten thereafter. Among her admirers, correspondents and friends were the
    most acknowledged scholars of her time, including Voltaire, Clairault, Maupertuis,
    Diderot, Helvetius, La Mettrie, Buffon, Christian Wolff, Leonard Euler, and Johann
    II Bernoulli. Her philosophical work enjoyed high reputation and her opus magnum,
    the Institutions physiques, was translated into Italian and German and proved
    her to be an intellectual of European stature. 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.
author:
- first_name: Ruth
  full_name: Hagengruber, Ruth
  id: '198'
  last_name: Hagengruber
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-6335
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>'
  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} }'
  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>.'
  ieee: 'R. Hagengruber, “Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749),” in <i>Encyclopedia of
    Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences</i>, Cham: Springer International Publishing,
    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.'
date_created: 2022-12-21T11:54:55Z
date_updated: 2023-01-12T10:06:49Z
department:
- _id: '615'
- _id: '14'
- _id: '519'
doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_410-1
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
language:
- iso: eng
place: Cham
publication: Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - '9783319207919'
  - '9783319207919'
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer International Publishing
status: public
title: Du Châtelet, Émilie (1706–1749)
type: book_chapter
user_id: '14931'
year: '2021'
...
---
_id: '20690'
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.
author:
- first_name: Ruth
  full_name: Hagengruber, Ruth
  id: '198'
  last_name: Hagengruber
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-6335
citation:
  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.
  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} }'
  chicago: Hagengruber, Ruth. “Pressure on Enlightenment. Bible Critics from Nogarola
    to Du Châtelet.” <i>Dianoia 31, No. XXV</i>, 2020, 331–53.
  ieee: R. Hagengruber, “Pressure on Enlightenment. Bible Critics from Nogarola to
    Du Châtelet,” <i>Dianoia 31, no. XXV</i>, pp. 331–353, 2020.
  mla: Hagengruber, Ruth. “Pressure on Enlightenment. Bible Critics from Nogarola
    to Du Châtelet.” <i>Dianoia 31, No. XXV</i>, 2020, pp. 331–53.
  short: R. Hagengruber, Dianoia 31, No. XXV (2020) 331–353.
conference:
  location: 'Bologna '
  name: Conference European Society of  Early Modern Philosophy
date_created: 2020-12-08T15:34:45Z
date_updated: 2022-11-25T20:27:36Z
department:
- _id: '519'
keyword:
- 'Keywords: Bible critics'
- Isotta Nogarola
- Querelle des femmes
- Enlightenment
- Émilie Du Châtelet.
language:
- iso: eng
page: 331-353
publication: Dianoia 31, no. XXV
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - ISBN 978-88-7000-877-7
publication_status: published
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: Pressure on Enlightenment. Bible Critics from Nogarola to Du Châtelet
type: journal_article
user_id: '49063'
year: '2020'
...