10. “The Monstrous Centaur”? Joseph De Maistre on Reason, Passion, and Violence

  1. Sarah Coakley
  1. Douglas Hedley

Published Online: 16 AUG 2012

DOI: 10.1002/9781118321997.ch10

Book Title

Faith, Rationality, and the Passions

Faith, Rationality, and the Passions

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How to Cite

Hedley, D. (2012) “The Monstrous Centaur”? Joseph De Maistre on Reason, Passion, and Violence, in Faith, Rationality, and the Passions (ed S. Coakley), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118321997.ch10

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 16 AUG 2012
  2. Published Print: 10 SEP 2012

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9781444361933

Online ISBN: 9781118321997

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Keywords:

  • “The Monstrous Centaur” Joseph De Maistre on reason/passion/violence;
  • Maistre developing his Soirées de St Pétersbourg Platonic dialogue, a theodicy;
  • Voltaire and the ambivalence of violence;
  • Voltaire presenting Christianity, as not just false but immoral;
  • desires, impulses, and appetites in an asymmetrical relationship with reason;
  • making desires, the object of deliberation;
  • Origen Redivivus, traditional dichotomy of rational self/its passions;
  • Origen's treatise On Principles;
  • Maistre seeing Empiricism, a sensualistic epistemology;
  • “Know Thyself” for Plato, Aristotle meaning “Know thy Divine self”

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Voltaire and the Ambivalence of Violence

  • Religion and Sacrifice

  • Reason and Passions

  • Origen Redivivus

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