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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524867103321

Autore

Crocker Lester G. [from old catalog]

Titolo

An Age of Crisis : Man and World in Eighteenth Century French Thought

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins Press, [1959]

©[1959]

ISBN

0-8018-0147-8

1-4214-3389-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 496 p. )

Collana

Goucher Colloquium Series

Soggetti

Enlightenment

Ethics - France - History

Philosophy, French

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prefatory Note -- Man in the Universe -- 1. Man's Relation to God -- 2. The Problem of Evil -- 3. Man's Place -- Freedom and Determinism -- 4. The Activity of the Mind -- 5. Freedom of Indifference. Intuition -- 6. The Moral Consequences -- Human Nature and Motivation -- 7. The Theory of Human Nature -- 8. Man's Detractors -- 9. Reason and the Passions -- 10. Forms and Values of Self-Interest (1) -- 11. Forms and Values of Self-Interest (2): Approbation, Esteem, and Pride -- 12. Man's Goodness -- 13. Ethics and Christianity -- 14. Human Nature in the Novel -- Culminations -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.