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The Significance of Diderot's Essai sur le mérite et la vertu

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The Significance of Diderot's Essai sur le mérite et la vertu Synopsis

Walters provides commentary on Diderot's translation of Shaftesbury's An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. By comparing the translation and notes, Walters demonstrates the evolution of Diderot's thought and artistic skill. Walters discusses the difference between theism and deism, the question of universal order, and compares atheism with free thought. After an analysis of religious fanaticism and social and political abuses, he turns his attention to virtue, as it relates to happiness, objective values, the moral sense, the passions, and self-interest. A final chapter deals with the style of the Essai.

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ISBN: 9780807891124
Publication date: 30th January 1971
Author: Gordon B. Walters Jr.
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 120 pages
Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
Genres: Philosophical traditions and schools of thought