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Rather than analyzing Montaigne's (1533-92) essays as literature or art, as most scholars do, Gauna (French studies, U. of Sheffield) looks at them as philosophy. He points out that though many of his ethical positions are characteristic of liberal thought in modern western culture, they directly contradicted the ethos of his own age and culture. He argues that such deviation could not be the result of the inconsistent short-term thinking and moral relativism that are normally attributed to his work, and undertakes to establish from them a coherent ethical system and to elucidate the manner in which that system is expounded. He looks at the principles and psychology underlying the ethics and their consequences, which include condemning cruelty even to animals and mocking coercion of belief. The text is double spaced. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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Todd Hanson
reviewed Montaigne and the Ethics of Compassion on May 03, 2020
Montaigne and the Ethics of Compassion
Four stars is an average of the various things at play here:
The introductory essay by the translator is an easy 5/5. For someone studying Camus, or interested in the progression of his philosophy during the mid 40s, it's an easy 5/5. An indispensable historical document for the English speaking Camus fan. The essays themselves are very, very mixed in terms of both interest and quality. Some are among my favorite things I've ever read of Camus, especially the editorial he wrote two days after Hiroshima. But a lot of it, particularly in 1944-45, is vague polemic. The experience of just reading through it, taking out the historical context, is a 2 or 3/5.
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