Antoine Arnauld

Antoine Arnauld
Born(1612-02-06)6 February 1612
Died8 August 1694(1694-08-08) (aged 82)[1]
NationalityFrench
EducationUniversity of Paris (Collège de Calvi and Collège de Lisieux[2])
Era17th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School
Main interests
Theology, metaphysics, epistemology, theodicy

Antoine Arnauld (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃twan aʁno]; 6 February 1612 – 8 August 1694) was a French Catholic theologian, priest, philosopher and mathematician. He was one of the leading intellectuals of the Jansenist group of Port-Royal and had a very thorough knowledge of patristics. Contemporaries called him le Grand to distinguish him from his father.

  1. ^ The new Schaff–Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge. Vol. 1. Baker, 1960
  2. ^ Walter Farquhar Hook, An ecclesiastical biography, containing the lives of ancient fathers and modern divines, interspersed with notices of heretics and schismatics, Volume 1, 1844 p. 284.

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