Apology for Raymond Sebond

Name: Apology for Raymond Sebond
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ISBN: 9780140444933

ISBN-10: 0140444939

ISBN-13: 9780140444933

Edition: 1987

Authors: Michel de Montaigne, M. A. Screech, M. A. Screech, M. A. Screech, M. A. Screech

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Widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays, this is an empassioned defence of Sebond's 15th century treatise on natural theology. He searches for the true meaning of faith while criticising the tendency of mankind to create God in their own image.

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/5/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.80" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

M. A. Screech is an emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is recognized as a world authority on the Renaissance and was inducted into the French Legion of Honor for his translation of Montaignes Essays .



Introduction


Montaigne: Life and Times


The Apology


Notes on the Text


Selected Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources


Apology for Raymond Sebond



Sebond and His Treatise



First Objection against Sebond, and Montaigne's Reply



Second Objection against Sebond, and Montaigne's Reply


The Vanity of Man's Knowledge without God


Man Is No Better than the Beasts


Man's Knowledge Cannot Make Him Happy


Man's Knowledge Cannot Make Him Good


Man Has No Knowledge


Man's Claims to Knowledge Are Defective


The Senses Are Inadequate


Changing Man Cannot Know Changing or Unchanging Things