History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists

5/31/2026 • 23 min

La Rochefoucauld and other “moralists” offer a penetrating and witty critique of human pride, selfishness, and hypocrisy. Is this just cynicism, or does it support a positive ethic?

HoP 497 Pure and Simple: Quietism
HoP 496 He Unwilling, She Unwilling: Jean Racine
HoP 495 Comedy of Errors: Molière
HoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden
HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism
HoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas
HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism
HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism
HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche
HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic
HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism
HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager
HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager
HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal
HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism

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