THE EMOTIONS OF A MORALIST AS A BASIS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN ETHICAL STANDARD: CHARLES-FRANCOIS LE MAITRE DE CLAVILLE'S PORTRAIT OF 'HONNETE HOMME'

• Authors: Sajkowski W.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Le Maitre de Claville belongs to the tradition of classicist moralism and attempts to fulfill the difficult task of portraying the honorable man, 'honnete hommme'. Trying to define the concept of virtue, he refers to his own aesthetic taste, subjective emotions of happiness, the ecstasy and bliss which come from the experience of beauty. With much liberty, he includes in his account of the honorable man what he himself considers most perfect from antiquity, the Bible and the most recent philosophical developments of his time (i.e. from rationalism). A coherent mixture of those elements is not easy. His deliberations show a moralist's effort to give to his theory the shape of a logically ordered doctrine made from freely chosen elements which are not always compatible.

Keywords

EN

'HONORABLE MAN'; ETHICAL STANDARD CONSTRUCTION; PHILOSOPHY OF FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw University, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology. Since 2007 - Warsaw University, Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology
• Journal: Etyka (Ethics)
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 40
• Pages: 77-92
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Sajkowski W.

• W. Sajkowski, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Akademia Artes Liberales, Kolegium Miedzywydzialowych Indywidualnych Studiów Humanistycznych, ul. Nowy Swiat 4, 00-046 Warszawa, Poland

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CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA04428564