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Into The Abyss Marquis De Sade
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Marquis de Sade and the Enlightenment
We are no guiltier in following the primitive impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her flood or the sea for her waves" - La Mettrie
The eighteenth century embraced a secularized France in which the idea of utility, and not of salvation, were the princip ....
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...., "To be good only for oneself is to be good for nothing."
Rousseau also argued that the ambition of the individual's particular desire be curbed to that of general societies. He writes, "The vices and virtues of each man are not relative to him alone. Their greatest relation is with society, and what they are in regard to the general order constitutes their essence and their character." Helvitius deemed that society could determine what was moral and immoral according to what suited it bes.... |
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