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Sacrifice and self-interest in seventeenth-century France : quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Prologue; Apparatus; Chapter 1 Pure Love; 1 Sacrifice; 2 The Theological Idiom; 3 Freedom and Volition; 4 A Tawdry Affair; 5 Contemporary Connections; Chapter 2 The Impossible Supposition; 1 Is Pure Love Possible?; 2 The Abandonment of Hope; 3 Novelty: Historical and Theological Contexts for the Impossible Supposition; 4 Secular Versions of the Impossible Supposition; 5 The Possibility of Virtue; Chapter 3 Quietism; 1 François de Sales (1567-1622); 2 Bossuet on François; 3 Bossuet and Mme Guyon; 4 Attrition and Contrition: Sirmond vs. Camus
- Chapter 4 Spontaneity and Indifference1 Two Senses of Freedom; 2 Spontaneity; 3 Indifference; Chapter 5 The Augustinus; 1 The First Attack on Molinist Indifference; 2 The Importance of the Augustinus; 3 The Text of the Augustinus; 4 Objections and Replies; 5 Hope; Chapter 6 Cartesian Wills; 1 Descartes's View: Circumstantial Evidence; 2 Descartes's View: Textual Evidence; Chapter 7 The Object of Love; 1 Amour propre and amour de soi; 2 Malebranche on the Will; 3 Malebranche and Lamy; 4 The Quietist Critique of Malebranche; Chapter 8 Bossuet's Jansenism; 1 Du Vaucel's Reports from Rome
- 2 The Text: Bossuet's Treatise on Free Will3 Nicole's Refutation of the Quietists; 4 The Episode of an ecclesiastical problem; 5 Quesnel's Contribution; Chapter 9 The Dénouement; 1 Descartes; 2 Jansenius; 3 Fénelon; Chapter 10 The Last Temptation; Chronology; Appendix 1 "The Famous Five" Cum occasione, 31 May 1653; Appendix 2 Cum alias, 12 March 1699; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index