Product Description: This book reconstructs key aspects of the early career of Descartes from 1618 to 1633; that is, up through the point of his composing his first system of natural philosophy, Le Monde, in 1629-33. It focuses upon the overlapping and intertwined development of Descartes’ projects in physico-mathematics, analytical mathematics, universal method, and, finally, systematic corpuscular-mechanical natural philosophy...read more

Product Description: Descartes est connu pour etre le philosophe des fermes et constantes resolutions . Comment expliquer alors qu'il critique severement les promesses, dans les maximes de la morale par provision du Discours de la Methode? Une resolution, en effet, n'est-elle pas une maniere de promesse a soi-meme? Suivant ce fil, le present ouvrage propose un parcours entierement original dans la correspondance, l'oeuvre et la vie de Descartes...read more

Product Description: The notions of virtue and vice are essential components of the Western ethical tradition. But in early modern France they were called into question, as writers, most famously La Rochefoucauld, argued that what appears as virtue is in fact disguised vice: people carry out praiseworthy deeds because they stand to gain in some way; they deserve no credit for their behaviour because they have no control over it; they are governed by feelings and motives of which they may not be aware...read more

Product Description: In seventeenth-century France, southwest of Paris, the Port-Royal convent became the center of the Jansenist movement and of its adherents’ resistance to church and throne. Three abbesses from the Arnauld family spearheaded this resistance: Mère Angélique Arnauld (1591-1661), Mère Agnès Arnauld (1593-1671), and Mère Angélique de Saint-Jean Arnauld d'Andilly (1624-1684)...read more

Product Description: Book by Koch, Erec R.

Product Description: 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...read more

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Product Description: This book tells for the first time the long and complex story of the involvement of Locke's suggestion that God could add to matter the power of thought in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding in the growth of French materialism...read more

The Description for this book, Philosophy and the State in France: The Renaissance to the Enlightenment, will be forthcoming.