Guy De Bruès

Guy De Bruès
Guy De Bruès
Born	c. 1530; Nîmes, France

Guy de Bruès (b. c. 1530) was a jurist and French philosopher from Nîmes in the circle of logician Petrus Ramus. He wrote Les Dialogues de Guy de Bruès, contre les Nouveaux Academiciens in 1557.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] It explored skeptical views and had a wide influence. Michel de Montaigne was known to read Bruès. The Dialogues are three discussions, first on metaphysics, then on ethics, then on law. The skeptics are represented in the dialogue by Jean-Antoine Baïf and lawyer Guillaume Aubert.

References

^ Popkin, R. H. (1979). The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza. United Kingdom: University of California Press. p. 30
^ Brues, G. D., Morphos, P. P. (1953). The Dialogues of Guy de Brues: A Critical Edition. United States: Johns Hopkins Press.
^ Warner, Lyndan. The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France: Print, Rhetoric, and Law. United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, 2016. p. 128
^ Carron, Jean-Claude. “Dialogical Argument: Scripting Rhetoric (The Case of Guy de Brués’s Dialogues).” South Central Review 10, no. 2 (1993): 20–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/3189997.

[1] Popkin, R. H. (1979). The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza. United Kingdom: University of California Press. p. 30

[2] Brues, G. D., Morphos, P. P. (1953). The Dialogues of Guy de Brues: A Critical Edition. United States: Johns Hopkins Press.

[3] Warner, Lyndan. The Ideas of Man and Woman in Renaissance France: Print, Rhetoric, and Law. United Kingdom, Taylor & Francis, 2016. p. 128

[4] Carron, Jean-Claude. “Dialogical Argument: Scripting Rhetoric (The Case of Guy de Brués’s Dialogues).” South Central Review 10, no. 2 (1993): 20–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/3189997.

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