deism

Fénelon has precisely described the scope and nature of the deist movement which, in the first generations of the 18th century, especially in England and France, was so important: “The great fashion of the libertines of our time is not … Read More

It is in the absolute that the rationalism of the seventeenth century sought to found the rules of thought and action: Cartesian reason seeks “true natures” whose immutability is guaranteed by God himself; it is in God that Malebranche sees … Read More