Tradition
Jansenism
Overview
Christian theological movement founded by Cornelius Jansen
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My confessor, who was hers likewise, contributed all in his power to keep up my hopes. This was a Jesuit, named Father Hemet; a good and wise old man, whose memory I shall ever hold in veneration. Though a Jesuit, he had the simplicity of a child, and his manners, less relaxed than gentle, were precisely what was necessary to balance the melancholy impressions made on me by Jansenism. This good man and his…
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete
The author is tied to Jansenism in the knowledge graph; names Jansenism twice.
Prior, they are more dangerous than Huguenots, or even Atheists." "My Reverend Father, we have none; it is not even known at our Lady of the Mountain what Jansenism is." "So much the better; go, there is nothing I will not do for you." He dismissed the Prior in this affectionate manner, but thought no more about him.
Voltaire, Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume
States what Jansenism is; names Jansenism several times.
The first course is that taken by the Molinists, the other is that of the Thomists and Jansenists and the Protestants of the Geneva Confession. Yet the Thomists have clamorously maintained that they were not Jansenists; and the latter have maintained with equal warmth that where freedom was concerned they were not Calvinists. On the other hand, the Molinists have maintained that St. Augustine did not teach Jansenism.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
Names Jansenism several times.
Philosophers who discussed Jansenism
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Place in the tradition
Part of French philosophy.