Sacrifice and self-interest in seventeenth-century France : quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism /
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Prologue; Apparatus; Chapter 1 Pure Love; 1 Sacrifice; 2 The Theological Idiom; 3 Freedom and Volition; 4 A Tawdry Affair; 5 Contemporary Connections; Chapter 2 The Impossible Supposition; 1 Is Pure Love Possible?; 2 The Abandonment of Hope; 3 Novelty: Historical and Theological Contexts for the Impossible Supposition; 4 Secular Versions of the Impossible Supposition; 5 The Possibility of Virtue; Chapter 3 Quietism; 1 François de Sales (1567-1622); 2 Bossuet on François; 3 Bossuet and Mme Guyon; 4 Attrition and Contrition: Sirmond vs. Camus
- Chapter 4 Spontaneity and Indifference1 Two Senses of Freedom; 2 Spontaneity; 3 Indifference; Chapter 5 The Augustinus; 1 The First Attack on Molinist Indifference; 2 The Importance of the Augustinus; 3 The Text of the Augustinus; 4 Objections and Replies; 5 Hope; Chapter 6 Cartesian Wills; 1 Descartes's View: Circumstantial Evidence; 2 Descartes's View: Textual Evidence; Chapter 7 The Object of Love; 1 Amour propre and amour de soi; 2 Malebranche on the Will; 3 Malebranche and Lamy; 4 The Quietist Critique of Malebranche; Chapter 8 Bossuet's Jansenism; 1 Du Vaucel's Reports from Rome
- 2 The Text: Bossuet's Treatise on Free Will3 Nicole's Refutation of the Quietists; 4 The Episode of an ecclesiastical problem; 5 Quesnel's Contribution; Chapter 9 The Dénouement; 1 Descartes; 2 Jansenius; 3 Fénelon; Chapter 10 The Last Temptation; Chronology; Appendix 1 "The Famous Five" Cum occasione, 31 May 1653; Appendix 2 Cum alias, 12 March 1699; Bibliography of Works Cited; Index