Three discourses of happiness, virtue, and liberty collected from the works of the learn'd Gassendi, by Monsieur Bernier ; translated out of French.
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- Three discourses of happiness, virtue, and liberty collected from the works of the learn'd Gassendi, by Monsieur Bernier ; translated out of French.
- Author
- Gassendi, Pierre, 1592-1655.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Awnsham and John Churchil ...,
- 1699.
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- Ethics -- Early works to 1800.
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"Three discourses of happiness, virtue, and liberty collected from the works of the learn'd Gassendi, by Monsieur Bernier ; translated out of French." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42442.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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THE PREFACE.
THE Epicurean Philosophers placing the Happiness of Man in the Satisfaction of the Mind, and Health of the Body, assure us that those two are no otherwise to be pro∣cured than by a constant Practice of Virtue: And because they have had the hard Fate to be misrepresented by most of the other Sects, as well Anci∣ent as Modern, and their Principles traduced as favouring the most brutal Sensuality; the Learned Gassendi, who had either examined their Do∣ctrin with more Diligence, or inter∣preted their Sentiments with more Candour and Justice, thought he could not employ his Time better, than to vindicate the Morals of Epicurus
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and his Followers, from the Slanders of Mistake and Malice, and to shew that their principal Design was, to lead Men by smooth and easie Paths to a just, sober, wise and virtuous Be∣haviour, as the only way to true Hap∣piness. This he proved at large, and illustrated with the Sentiments of many great and excellent Men among the Greeks and Romans. But because these Things were diffused through the voluminous Works of that Great Man, Monsieur Bernier, whose Name is a sufficient Commendation in the Common-wealth of Learning, took the Pains to put them together, and to form them into several intire Discourses; which on account of their great im∣portance to Mankind, are here pre∣sented to the Publick.