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In the name of a certain theory of race inferiority, the imperialist powers have instituted the slave trade which will annihilate the countries of the Third World, and mainly those of the African continent. They will impose their vision of the world through the universalization of a Cartesian philosophy which has considerably encroached on the local histories of subordinate peoples. Even today, categories of people continue to suffer from the depreciative stereotypes constructed by the settler. For African novelists, the historical truth must be recognized. They therefore write with the aim of restoring the authentic values of these peoples. It is in this perspective that Seydou Badian inscribes his work entitled Sacred Weddings where he magnifies an African tradition which only asks to be recognized as an absolute and autonomous value, through a decolonial writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses French theologian and poet François Fénelon's relations with French Oratorian priest and rationalist philosopher Nicolas Malebranche. It discusses the personal relations between Fenelon and Malebranche; biographical elements and issues of publishing; and a common Cartesianism in the readings of the 19th century literature.

Our study herewith aims at discerning the correlation between the manner in which the 1630 Cartesian doctrine with regard to the created eternal truths unfolds and the theme of incomprehensibility. Taking into account the fact that the emergence of this subject is historically simultaneous with the emergence of the doctrine, we can infer that the making of the doctrine of truths must be structurally marked by the incomprehensibility of their origins, and so, of the infinite divinity that institutes them. This correlation is being highlighted by a close reading of the three letters under scrutiny here. Furthermore, we believe that the place this doctrine holds within the corpus of Descartes' thought may be much better circumscribed once we grasp the implications of incomprehensibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

According to Burman, Descartes' proof of the existence of God in the Third Meditation depends on the reader's ability to attend to several axioms at the same time. However it is a claim endorsed by a wide range of Aristotelian schoolmen and by Burman after them that such a simultaneous conception is far beyond the capacity of our mind. Descartes takes an original stand in that controversy : human thought is a temporal process in which ideas not only succeed but also interfere with one another ; meditation can help stretching our attention so as to embrace more than one argument in a same moment. Indeed, metaphysics is not only a matter of order for Descartes, but also of synoptical power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]