Sacrifice and self-interest in seventeenth-century France : quietism, Jansenism, and Cartesianism /
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 inescapable. The debate swept across French society in the 1...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
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