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

• Autore: Crocker Lester G. [from old catalog]
• Pubblicazione: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019; Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins Press, [1959]; ©[1959]
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xx, 496 p. )
• Soggetto topico: Enlightenment; Ethics - France - History; Philosophy, French
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: An Age of Crisis
• ISBN: 0-8018-0147-8; 1-4214-3389-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910524867103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Goucher College series. [from old catalog]