Sacrifice and self-interest in seventeenth-century France : : quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism /

Sacrifice and self-interest in seventeenth-century France : : quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism / / by Thomas M. Lennon.

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How much of our own self- interest should we be willing to sacrifice for love of another? The Quietists answered, all of it, even the salvation of our own soul. Opposing them were the Jansenists, including Arnauld, who saw self-interest as inescapable. The debate swept across French society in the 1...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; volume304
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Lennon, Thomas M.,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; volume304.
Physical Description:1 online resource (318 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Prologue
  • Apparatus
  • Pure Love
  • The Impossible Supposition
  • Quietism
  • Spontaneity and Indifference
  • The Augustinus
  • Cartesian Wills
  • The Object of Love
  • Bossuet’s Jansenism
  • The Dénouement
  • The Last Temptation
  • Back Matter
  • Chronology
  • “The Famous Five” Cum occasione, 31 May 1653
  • Cum alias, 12 March 1699
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Index.

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