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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 principles by which one lived. Nature and reason in many ....
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....ety. This idea left no universal law of good and evil. The right of the individual to pursue pleasure and his notions of right and wrong were secondary to his obligation to society. Voltaire explains, "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 .... |
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