History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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HoP 497 Pure and Simple: Quietism

The “Quietists” Jeanne Guyon and François Fénelon argue that self-love can be overcome by cultivating a “pure love” for God. Their reward: to be accused of heresy.

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  HoP 496 He Unwilling, She Unwilling: Jean Racine

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  HoP 495 Comedy of Errors: Molière

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  HoP 494 Tell the Truth While Laughing: The French Moralists

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  HoP 493 Better Nature: The French Garden

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  HoP 492 Changing By Degrees: French Scholasticism

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  HoP 491 Image Problems: Arnauld vs Malebranche on Ideas

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  HoP 490 Steven Nadler on Occasionalism

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  HoP 489 All Power to Him: Malebranche and Occasionalism

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  HoP 488 No Particular Reason: Nicolas Malebranche

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  HoP 487 Showing Good Judgment: The Port Royal Logic

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  HoP 486 Friends of the Truth: Arnauld and Jansenism

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  HoP 485 Liz Jackson on Pascal's Wager

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  HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager

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  HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal

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  HoP 482 Indivisible, Under God: the Revival of Atomism