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- An Age of Crisis: Man and World in Eighteenth Century French Thought
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- 2019
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Series: Goucher Colloquium
- Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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Originally published in 1959. This book examines the French Enlightenment by analyzing critical thought in eighteenth-centruy France. It examines the philosophes' views on evil, free will and determinism, and human nature. This is an interesting group to look at, according to Crocker, because French Enlightenment thinkers straddled two vastly different time periods.
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- Half Title
- p. i
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- p. v
- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Prefatory Note
- pp. xi-xx
- Man in the Universe
- 1. Man’s Relation to God
- pp. 3-35
- 2. The Problem of Evil
- pp. 36-70
- 3. Man’s Place
- pp. 71-106
- Freedom and Determinism
- 4. The Activity of the Mind
- pp. 109-135
- 5. Freedom of Indifference. Intuition
- pp. 136-160
- 6. The Moral Consequences
- pp. 161-176
- Human Nature and Motivation
- 7. The Theory of Human Nature
- pp. 179-201
- 8. Man’s Detractors
- pp. 202-217
- 9. Reason and the Passions
- pp. 218-255
- 10. Forms and Values of Self-Interest (1)
- pp. 256-281
- 12. Man’s Goodness
- pp. 325-376
- 13. Ethics and Christianity
- pp. 377-403
- 14. Human Nature in the Novel
- pp. 404-446
- Culminations
- pp. 447-473
- Bibliography
- pp. 474-488
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421433905
Related ISBN(s)
9780801801471, 9781421433882, 9781421433899
MARC Record
OCLC
1122190185
Pages
518
Launched on MUSE
2019-10-07
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
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