Franklin Library: MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE: ESSAYS: FRENCH PHILOSOPHER

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Michel de Montaigne's "Essays," Translated by Donald M. Frame, Illustrated by Gonzalo Fonseca, essays were the selection of Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS OF ALL TIME series a limited edition published in 1980. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has hunter green moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition---no noticeable 'issues.' Michel de Montaigne, who lived from 1533---1592, was educated at Bordeaux, France. "Essays" reveal the author as a man of insatiable intellectual curiosity, kindly and sagacious, condemning pedantry and lying, but tolerant of an easy morality. After the premature death of his friend La Boetie, he is much preoccupied with the subject of death. The general conclusion of the essays, embodied in his famous question, 'Que sais-Je', is the recognition of the fallibility of human reason and the relativity of human science. Chapters include: "On Man," "Of Liars," "Of Books," "Against Do-Nothingness," "Of Giving the Lie," "One Man's Profit Is Another Man's Harm," "Of Friendship," "Of Moderation," "Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment," "Is It Folly to Measure the True and False by Our Own Capacity," "That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die," "That Our Happiness Must Not Be Judged Until After Our Death," "That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends in Large Part on the Opinion We Have of Them," "Of Evil Means Employed to a Good End," "That Desire Is Increased by Difficulty," "Of Ancient Customs," "Of Cannibals," "Of Solitude," Of the Uncertainty of Our Judgment," "Of Conscience," "Against Do-nothingness," "Of Anger," "On Some Verses of Virgil," "On the Disadvantage of Greatness," "Of the Education of Children," "Of Evil Means Employed to a Good End," "Of Custom, and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law," "Of Liars, "Of Age," "Of Virtue," "Of Ancient Customs," "Of the Disadvantage of Greatness," "On Some Verses of Virgil," "Of Knowledge and Pride," "Apology for Raymond Sebond," and my favorite: "On the Custom of Wearing Clothes." 477 pages. I offer Combined shipping.

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