Crocker, Lester G.

An Age of Crisis : Man and World in Eighteenth Century French Thought - 1 online resource (518 pages). - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Man's relation to God -- The problem of evil -- Man's place -- The activity of the mind -- Freedom of indifference. Intuition -- The moral consequences -- The theory of human nature -- Man's detractors -- Reason and the passions -- Forms and values of self-interest (1) -- Forms and values of self-interest (2): approbation, esteem, and pride -- Man's goodness -- Ethics and Christianity -- Human nature in the novel.

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9781421433905


Aufklärung
Philosophy, French.
Ethics.
Enlightenment.
Philosophie française.
Siecle des Lumieres.
Morale--Histoire.--France
Philosophie française--18e siecle.
Philosophy, French--18th century.
Philosophy, French.
Ethics--History.--France
Enlightenment.


Frankreich
France.


Autographs (Provenance)
History.
Electronic books.