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Falsehood Disguised analyzes La Rochefoucauld's ideas on truth and falsehood in the context of his views on self-love, on the passions, and on vice and virtue. It also explores his views on the subject in relation to what he sees as the extremely fragile foundations of the social contract. It examines these thorny ethical problems first in the context of the Baroque culture that directly influenced his thought and then in the light of the work of other moralists, including Gracian, Daniel Dyke, Descartes, and the Jansenists Blaise Pascal and Pierre Nicole. Through close textual analysis of La…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 1999Purdue University Press · 192 pages · 9781557532183
- Other · English · 1995Purdue University Press · 176 pages · 9781557530639
French MaximsHistory and criticismMaxims, FrenchTruth in literatureTruthfulness and falsehood in literatureMaxims