Showing papers on "Jansenism published in 2020"
TL;DR: Forgery of two letters attributed to the philosopher David Hume (1711-1776) were exposed in the twentieth century by as discussed by the authors, who made a systematic case against the authenticity of the letters, and focused in particular on the question of whether Hume met the Jansenist homme de lettres Noel-Antoine Pluche and had access to his library, in Reims, in 1734.
Abstract: This article alleges that two letters attributed to the philosopher David Hume (1711–1776) were forged in the twentieth century. The letters were first published in 1972 and 1973 by Michael Morrisroe, an assistant professor of English in the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, after which they became monuments of conventional scholarship on Hume's life and writings. Both letters are cited without qualification by scholars of Hume's thought in dozens of publications, including Ernest Campbell Mossner's celebrated Life of David Hume (1980), and John Robertson's entry for Hume in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). This article reconstructs the history and transmission of Hume's extant letters and attempts to account for why the forgeries published by Morrisroe were accepted as genuine. It makes a systematic case against the authenticity of the letters, and focuses in particular on the question of whether Hume met the Jansenist homme de lettres Noel-Antoine Pluche (1688–1761) and had access to his library, in Reims, in 1734. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications of the expose for modern editorial scholarship and intellectual history.
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TL;DR: Tolomei's life intersected a series of significant events in the church's history and that of the Society of Jesus: on-going conflict with Jansenism, the Chinese Rites controversy, significant innovations in the Society's intellectual curriculum, and its renewed incorporation within the upper echelons of the Roman Curia.
Abstract: This article sets out what is known of the life of Giambattista Tolomei (1653–1726), sometime rector of the Jesuit school in Ragusa (Dubrovnik), of the Collegio Romano, and the Collegio Germanico, cardinal of the Holy Roman Church, philosopher, theologian, bibliophile, and philologist. Tolomei’s life intersected a series of significant events in the church’s history and that of the Society of Jesus: on-going conflict with Jansenism, the Chinese Rites controversy, significant innovations in the Society’s intellectual curriculum, and its renewed incorporation within the upper echelons of the Roman Curia. Tolomei played a key part in all those developments, and his role in what transpired is explored here—placed in context to establish his significance to the Society’s history in the early eighteenth century and beyond.
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01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: The relationship between natural love, including friendship as defined by the philosophers (Cicero), and pure love or the love of God as discussed by the authors is central to mysticism and also to the conception of salvation: in his Instruction pastorale sur le systeme de Jansenius, Fenelon thus refutes the narrow conception that he attributes to Fremont, who acts as the spokesman of the Jansenists.
Abstract: In the antiquity of Fenelon’s Telemaque, a wise man is doomed to eternal torment in Hades. However, Fenelon writes elsewhere that devotion such as that of Alcestis in the Banquet is such that it ‘almost makes one reach the end’. What is in question is nothing less than the relationship between natural love, including friendship as defined by the philosophers (Cicero), and ‘pure love’ or the love of God. This question is central to mysticism and also to the conception of salvation: in his Instruction pastorale sur le systeme de Jansenius, Fenelon thus refutes the narrow conception that he attributes to Fremont, who acts as the spokesman of the Jansenists.