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

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

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History #304

Thomas M. Lennon

300 pages • first pub 2019 (view editions)

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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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