Sens commun et métaphysique selon Claude Buffier

Abstract

francaisComme nombre de ses contemporains, Buffier concoit la metaphysique comme une theorie des principes generaux de la connaissance humaine, principes sur lesquels se fondent les sciences. Dans ce cadre, il est necessaire de considerer les verites generales premieres et leur origine, ainsi que de mettre en evidence le critere de leur certitude. Dans cette perspective, le sens commun est compris comme la source premiere de notre connaissance. Buffier apparait ainsi etre le premier penseur du sens commun, qu’il eleve au statut de faculte cognitive pleine et entiere. Le sens commun n’est plus oppose a la metaphysique abstraite mais devient son premier operateur. EnglishLike many of his contemporaries, Buffier conceives metaphysics as a theory of the general principles of human knowledge, on which sciences are grounded. For this purpose, it is necessary to examine the first general truths and their origin, and to highlight the criterion of their certainty. In this perspective, common sense is understood as the first source of our knowledge. Buffier thus appears as the first thinker of common sense, which he promotes as a full cognitive faculty. Common sense is no longer opposed to abstract metaphysics, but becomes its first operator.