Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II

by Michael Moriarty

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From the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries, French writing is especially concerned with analyzing human nature. The ancient ethical vision of man's nature and goal (we achieve fulfillment by living our lives according to reason, the highest and noblest element of our nature) survives, even, to some extent, in Descartes. But it is put into question especially by the revival of St. Augustine's thought, which focuses on the contradictions...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199291039

ISBN13:9780199291038

Release Date:July 2006

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:450 Pages

Weight:1.58 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Language Arts Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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