Main entry:

Hazard, Paul, 1878-1944.

Title & Author:

European thought in the eighteenth century : from Montesquieu to Lessing / Paul Hazard.

Publication:

Gloucester, Mass. : Peter Smith, 1973.

Description:

477 pages

Series:

A Meridian book

Notes:
Translation from the original French by J. Lewis May.
Originally published by Yale University Press in 1954.
Companion volume to the author's The European mind, 1680-1715.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part I: Christianity on trial -- The ubiquitous critic -- Happiness -- Reason and knowledge -- The God of the Christians impeached -- Revealed religion -- Christian apologetics -- The growth of unbelief; Jansenism; the explusion of the Jesuits. Part II: The city of men -- Natural religion -- Natural science -- Law -- Morals -- Government -- Education -- The encyclopaedia -- The world of letters and ideas -- Ideas and manners. Part III: Disaggregation -- "Becoming" -- Nature and reason -- Nature and goodness: optimism -- Natural politics and enlightened depotism -- Nature and freedom: laws are necessary relations deriving from the nature of things -- Sentiment; uneasiness; potencia sensitiva en el ombre -- The feelings: the primitive and the civilized -- Diderot -- The various deisms: Bolingbroke and Pope -- Deisms: Voltaire -- Desisms: Lessing. Conclusion: Europe: the true and the false.

ISBN:

0844622265
9780844622262

Subject:

Philosophy History.
Eighteenth century.
Religious thought 18th century.
Philosophie Histoire.
Dix-huitième siècle.
Pensée religieuse 18e siècle.
Philosophy.
Religious thought.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 69117
Call No.: PO10664; ID:86-B10553
Status: Available