Sacrifice and Self-Interest in Seventeenth-Century France: Quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism by Thomas M. Lennon

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #304

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

Thomas M. Lennon

300 pages hardcover 2019

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How much of our own self- interest should we be willing to sacrifice for love of another? The Quietists answered, all of it, even the salvation of our own soul. Opposing them were the Jansenists, including Arnauld, who saw self-interest as inescap...

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