Fallen Nature, Fallen Selves: Early Modern French Thought II

by Michael Moriarty

From the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth centuries, French writing is especially concerned with analyzing human nature. The ancient ethical vision of man's nature and goal (we achieve fulfillment 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199291039
• ISBN13: 9780199291038
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 450 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"