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Gardens of happiness: Sir William Temple, temperance and China
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Taylor & Francis via the DOI in this recordSir William Temple, an English statesman and humanist, wrote “Upon the
Gardens of Epicurus” in 1685, taking a neo-epicurean approach to happiness
and temperance. In accord with Pierre Gassendi’s epicureanism, “happiness” is
characterised as freedom from disturbance and pain in mind and body, whereas
“temperance” means following nature (Providence and one’s physiopsychological constitution). For Temple, cultivating fruit trees in his garden was
analogous to the threefold cultivation of temperance as a virtue in the humoral
body (as food), the mind (as freedom from the passions), and the bodyeconomic (as circulating goods) in order to attain happiness. A regimen that was
supposed to cure the malaise of Restoration amidst a crisis of unbridled
passions, this threefold cultivation of temperance underlines Temple’s reception
of China and Confucianism wherein happiness and temperance are highlighted.
Thus Temple’s “gardens of happiness” represent not only a reinterpretation of
classical ideas, but also his dialogue with China.European CommissionLeverhulme Trus
Lettre de Boisguilbert Ă de Pontchartrain
Boisguilbert , Boisguilbert . Lettre de Boisguilbert à de Pontchartrain . In: Revue d'histoire moderne, tome 3 N°17,1928. pp. 360-363
Mémoire pour faciliter et avancer la levée d'un grand nombre de charges qui sont aux parties casuelles.
Boisguilbert . Mémoire pour faciliter et avancer la levée d'un grand nombre de charges qui sont aux parties casuelles. In: Revue d'histoire moderne, tome 3 N°17,1928. pp. 364-369
Second mémoire
Boisguilbert . Second mémoire . In: Revue d'histoire moderne, tome 3 N°17,1928. pp. 369-370
Dissertation de la nature des richesses, de l'argent et des tributs, où l'on découvre la fausse idée qui règne dans le monde à  l'égard de ces trois articles
Testament politique de monsieur de Vauban, marechal de France & premier ingenieur du roi. vol. 1 / , dans lequel ce seigneur donne les moiens d'augmenter considerablement les revenus de la couronne, par l'Ă©tablissement d'une dixme royale; & suppression des impots, sans apprehension d'aucune revolution dans l'Etat. Tome premier. [Tome second]
Économistes financiers du XVIIIe siècle
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