Apologie de Raimond Sebond

Extrait:La haine implacable contre les tyrans dans les deux Bruntus l'inﬂexibilité de Manlius, la simplicité, le gout des travaux champêtres dans Cincinnatus le mépris des richesses dans Fabricius l'austérité stoicienne de Caton, et dans tous les Romains l'horreur pour la monarchie; l'amour de la liberté et de la patrie, la grandeur d'âme l'esprit public, la modération et la sagesse dans les succès la fermeté la constance dans les revers; la crainte des dieux la foi des sermens, le respect pour les loix et les magistrats formoient les moeurs to maines des beaux jours de la Republique et doivent devenir les notrasfsi nous voulons conserver la liberté.

Appel à Michel Montagne suivi de Voltaire aux Champs Elisées, poëme, et précédé d'une Adresse en vers aux français républicains

Les essais

Du repentir n'est pas un chapitre des essais parmi d'autres : c'est une véritable miniature de la totalité de l'oeuvre de montaigne.
 En effet, en rencontrant le problème moral du repentir, montaigne pose plus profondément celui du temps, de son insaisissable fuite et de son irréversibilité.  or les essais n'ont pas d'autre objet.  du reste, ils furent sans cesse récrits par montaigne, édition après édition, modifications et ajouts successifs constituant autant de "repentirs" au sens où les peintres emploient ce terme.  c'est donc à la fois l'unique objet des essais et sa forme en mouvement que montaigne fond ici l'un dans l'autre : "je ne peins pas l'être.
 Je peins le passage. " dans sa lecture, françois warin brosse un portrait original et saisissant de montaigne en philosophe-pirate.

Du repentir

Les  Essais  nous rappellent que les études littéraires, les humanités, selon l'expression de l'époque, avaient pour ambition la formation morale de l'homme et non l'acquisition de connaissances : Le gain de notre étude, c'est en être devenu meilleur et plus sage. Cet humanisme a inspiré l'honnête homme du XVIIe  siècle puis le philosophe des Lumières. À une époque où la nouveauté est érigée en dogme et l'excès en critère de qualité, il est plus que jamais nécessaire de lire et relire Montaigne.Le recueil contient 30 extraits et  6 essais.

Essais ; des Cannibales (I, 31) ; des Coches (III, 6)

Essais Livre 3 "Il n'est point d'auteur qu'il soit plus facile de tirer à soi, sans que précisément on puisse être accusé de le trahir ; car il vous donne l'exemple et sans cesse se contredit et se trahit lui-même. Aussi Montaigne n'est-il guère aimé des partisans, qu'il n'aimait guère." André Gide

Essais Tome 3

ALL TIME WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER: THE COMPLETE 3 VOLUME ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE (Special Complete and Unabridged Nook Edition) by MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Montaigne's Essays Complete and Unabridged[Featured in The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton]The Essays is a collection of 107 short philosophical works written by Michel de Montaigne that was first published in 1580. Montaigne essentially invented the literary form of essay, a short subjective treatment of a given topic, of which the book contains a large number. (Essai is French for "trial" or "attempt").Montaigne's stated goal is to describe man, and especially himself, with utter frankness. Montaigne's writings are studied within literary studies, as literature and philosophy.Inspired by his consideration of the lives and ideals of the leading figures of his age, he finds the great variety and volatility of human nature to be its most basic features. He describes his own poor memory, his ability to solve problems and mediate conflicts without truly getting emotionally involved, his disdain for man's pursuit of lasting fame, and his attempts to detach himself from worldly things to prepare for his timely death. He writes about his disgust with the religious conflicts of his time, reflecting a spirit of skepticism and belief that humans are not able to attain true certainty. The longest of his essays, Apology for Raymond Sebond, contains his famous motto, "What do I know?"EXCERPTS"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.""Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.""Everyone calls barbarity what he is not accustomed to.""If you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.""When I play with my cat, how do I know that she is not playing with me rather than I with her?""Life in itself is neither good nor evil, it is the place of good and evil, according to what you make it.""The continuous work of our life is to build death.""If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because it was he, because it was I.""Kings and philosophers defecate, and so do ladies.""I enter into discussion and argument with great freedom and ease, inasmuch as opinion finds me in a bad soil to penetrate and take deep root in. No propositions astonish me, no belief offends me, whatever contrast it offers to my own. There is no fancy so frivolous and so extravagant that it does not seem to me quite suitable to the production of the human mind.""Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.""Human understanding is marvellously enlightened by daily conversation with men, for we are, otherwise, compressed and heaped up in ourselves, and have our sight limited to the length of our own noses.""Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.""The clatter of arms drowns the voice of law.""No matter that we may mount on stilts, we still must walk on our own legs. And on the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom.""Nothing is so firmly believed as that which least is known.""Man cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen.""I have gathered a garland of other men’s flowers, and nothing is mine but the cord that binds them.""No man is a hero to his own valet.""The only thing certain is nothing is certain.""Whether the events in our life are good or bad greatly depends on the way we perceive them.""I believe it to be true that dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them."

THE COMPLETE 3 VOLUME ESSAYS OF MONTAIGNE [Featured in The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton]

Dans "De la phisionomie", l'ironie fragilise le récit élogieux que Montaigne fait de lui-même en se comparant à Socrate. Est proposée ainsi une réflexion sur l'exemplarité possible des récits, sur les limites intrinsèques de cet autoportrait de "bonne foi" et le bon usage qu'on peut en faire.

De la phisionomie - Essais, III, 12

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