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An age of crisis : man and world in eighteenth century French thought

Title: An age of crisis : man and world in eighteenth century French thought / by Lester G. Crocker.
Author: Crocker, Lester G.
Publication: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, [1959]

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Description

xx, 496 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

The Goucher College series

Uniform Title

Goucher College series

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Genre/Form

History
Autographs.
Autographs (Provenance)

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 474-488.

Contents

Man's relation to God -- The problem of evil -- Man's place -- The activity of the mind -- Freedom of indifference. Intuition -- The moral consequences -- The theory of human nature -- Man's detractors -- Reason and the passions -- Forms and values of self-interest (1) -- Forms and values of self-interest (2): approbation, esteem, and pride -- Man's goodness -- Ethics and Christianity -- Human nature in the novel.

LCCN

59014233

OCLC

ocm00372804
372804
SCSB-9488567

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library