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

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Lester G. Crocker
2019
Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
Series: Goucher Colloquium
Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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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.

Table of Contents

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Cover

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Half Title

pp. i

Title Page

pp. iii

Copyright

pp. iv

Dedication

pp. v

Acknowledgments

pp. vii-viii

Contents

pp. ix

Prefatory Note

pp. xi-xx

Man in the Universe

1. Man’s Relation to God

pp. 3-35

2. The Problem of Evil

pp. 36-70

3. Man’s Place

pp. 71-106

Freedom and Determinism

4. The Activity of the Mind

pp. 109-135

5. Freedom of Indifference. Intuition

pp. 136-160

6. The Moral Consequences

pp. 161-176

Human Nature and Motivation

7. The Theory of Human Nature

pp. 179-201

8. Man’s Detractors

pp. 202-217

9. Reason and the Passions

pp. 218-255

10. Forms and Values of Self-Interest (1)

pp. 256-281

11. Forms and Values of Self-Interest (2): Approbation, Esteem, and Pride

pp. 282-324

12. Man’s Goodness

pp. 325-376

13. Ethics and Christianity

pp. 377-403

14. Human Nature in the Novel

pp. 404-446

Culminations

pp. 447-473

Bibliography

pp. 474-488

Index

pp. 489-496
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