Joseph Joubert. 1899. Joubert: A Selection from His Thoughts

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A conscience to oneself, a morality to oneself, a religion to oneself!—These things, by their nature, cannot be private.

Joseph
Joubert

Joseph Joubert
A Selection from His Thoughts

Translated by Katharine Lyttelton

More than 900 aphorisms from the witness to the French Revolution.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record Translator’s Preface Introduction

NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD & Co., 1899
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011

I. Of God, Creation, Eternity, Piety, Religion, Preachers, Sacred Books II. Of Man, the Organs, the Soul, the Intellectual Faculties III. Of Minds and Their Nature IV. Of the Passions and Affections V. What Is Modesty? VI. Of the Various Ages of Life, Sickness and Death VII. Of Domestic Life, Society, Conversation, Politeness and Manners VIII. Of Wisdom, Virtue, and Morality, of Law and Duty IX. Of Order and Chance, of Good and Evil Fortune X. Of Truth, Illusion, and Error XI. Of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Abstractions, Logic, Systems XII. Of Space, Time, Light, and Sound XIII. Of Governments and Constitutions XIV. Of Liberty, Justice, and Laws XV. Of Customs and Habits, both Public and Private, and the Character of Nations XVI. Of Antiquity XVII. Of the Present Time XVIII. Of Education XIX. Of the Fine Arts XX. Poetry XXI. Style XXII. Of the Qualities of a Writer XXIII. Literary Judgments. I. Writers of Antiquity II. Religious Writers III. Metaphysicians IV. Prose Writers, Philosophers, Political Writers V. Poets and Novelists VI. On Some Romances of the Time The Author, Drawn by Himself