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FALLEN NATURE, FALLEN SELVES
EARLY MODERN FRENCH THOUGHT II |
| By: |
Michael Moriarty |
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Hardback |
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£195.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199291039 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199291038 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
25 May, 2006 |
| Pages: |
450 |
| Description: |
An investigation of psychological and ethical thought in seventeenth-century France, emphasizing both continuities and discontinuities with ancient and medieval thought. It demonstrates the subtlety and complexity of psychological analysis that characterizes the period and shows how religious doctrines affected ethical and psychological thought. |
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From the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries, French writing is especially concerned with analysing human nature. The ancient ethical vision of man's nature and goal (we achieve fulfilment 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 and disorders of human desires and aspirations. Analyses of behaviour display a powerful suspicion of appearances. Human beings are increasingly seen as motivated by self-love: they are driven by the desire for their own advantage, and take a narcissistic delight in their own image. Moral and religious writers re-emphasize the traditional imperative of self-knowledge, but in such a way as to suggest the difficulties of knowing oneself. Operating with the Cartesian distinction between mind and body, they emphasize the imperceptible influence of bodily proc |
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UK |
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Oxford University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Shortlisted for the Journal of the History of Philosophy book |
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