Damien Mitton
Damien Mitton (Paris, 1618 - 1690) is a writer French, one of the theorists, like Méré, of the ideal of the “honest man” at the 17th century.
Middle-class rich person “of the court”, Mitton saw initially the existence of a libertine. Tallemant known as “the large player”. He is the friend of the Fountain and Benserade, but he is especially known because of Pascal, which makes of it the model of the “Libertin” in his Pensées .
Mitton, which passed in its time for a referee of the good taste, and to which many authors presented their works, left only Pensées on the honesty , published in the sixth part of the Œuvres frays of Saint-Évremond. Honesty appears to with it like a morals without God reconciling the research of happiness with the reason.
References
Jean Lafond, Moralists of the XVIIe century , Robert Laffont, “Books”, pp.85-90.
External bond
- Thought on honesty
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