Sacrifice and Self-Interest in Seventeenth-Century France - Quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism

The debate in 17th-century France between the Quietists and their opponents raised the question whether we should be willing to sacrifice the salvation of our own souls for love of another. Descartes's views on freewill were cited by both sides.

About the author

Thomas M. Lennon, Ph.D. Ohio State (1968) is Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario. He has published Battle of the Gods and Giants (Princeton UP, 1993), Plain Truth: Descartes, Huet, and Skepticism (Brill, 2008), translations of Malebranche and Huet, and many journal articles.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas M Lennon, Thomas M. Lennon
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.07.2019
• EAN: 9789004400962
• ISBN: 978-90-04-40096-2
• No. of pages: 318
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day