Falsehood Disguised: Unmasking the Truth in La Rochefoucauld

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Index Amor sui, 42, 156Ch4 n3 "Amour de la Verite, L'," 1 Amour-propre. See Self-love Anger, in relation to self-love, 51 Antithesis. 16 Appearances, 18-20, 82-84 Artifice. See Deceit Bacon, Sir Francis, 4, 7 Baroque discourse, 16--17 La Rochefoucauld and the, 13-26 rhetorical devices, 16 as a term, 14 worldview, 13 Barthes, Roland, 22, 24, 124, 127 Benichou, Paul, 6. 98 Benjamin, Walter, 36 Blindness, 54-55, 66, 75 Browne, Sir Thomas, 16 Burton, Robert, 23 Castiglione, Baltasar, 77 Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas, 110-11 Char. Rene, 128 Classicism, 15, 16 Clemency, 90 Commedia dell'arte, 49 Confidence, 91-95 Corneille, Pierre, 14 Coulet, Henri, 33 Deceit, 3, 18,20,46-47;52, 70, 79-80,92 Deleuze. Gilles. 15 Descartes. Rene, 6. 60 on virtues and vices, 72-73 Discontinuity, 16-17; 127-28 "Discours de La ChapelleBesse ." 48, 73-74 "Discours des agremens" (Mere), 65 Disguise, 18.29.33,47,81, 86, 91, 119 Donne. John. 16 Dubois, Claude-Gilbert, 14 Ducasse, Isidore. See Lautreamont, comte de Durand, Etienne, 21 Dyke. Daniel, 28-29, 67 on deceit and feigning, 80 on vice and virtue, 72 .. Egotism, 43.-45, 53, 121. See also Self-love Encyclopedie, L', III Esprit, Jacqu~s, 69 Etre vrai. See Genuine person Falsehood disguised, 2, 130 . Falsity. 3-5, 18, 30-32, 85, 92, 99-100, 109-10, 119-20, 125-2~, 130 Faret, Nicolas, 77 . Fierte, 43.45. See also Pride Fouquet, Nicolas, 90 Freud, Sigmund, 26 Frey. Hans-lost, 37 Fronde, lao 21 Geniuine person (etre vrai), 27, 34,62,92-93.100 . Gide, Andre Les Faux-Monnayeurs, 123 L'[mmoraliste.33 Gracian, Baltasar, 9 on deceiving others, 79-80' on dissimulation and candor, . 46 Granier, Jean, 3 Gratitude, 88-89 Grief, 51-52 Guarini, Gian Battista, 70 173 Index Heidegger, Martin, 5 Hobbes, Thomas, 99, 105 on the concept of mutual confidence, 108 Honnile homme. See Honnilele; Genuine being Honnilele, 97-103 Humility, 88 Humors, 23-24 Illness, as metaphor, 58-59 Illusion, 18-20 Imagery, 16, 41 Imitation, 84-86 Inconslance. See Inconstancy Inconstancy (inconslance), 20-25 Indolence (paresse), 63-65 Inleril. See Self-interest Jan~enism, 32, 34, 59 Jeanson, Francis, 20 Justice, 89-90 La Bruy~re, Jean de, 86, 125 Lacan, Jacques, 54-55 arid La Rochefoucauld, 121-23 La Chapelle-Bess~,Henri de, 48, 73-74 Laclos, Choderlos de, 76 La Fayette, Mme de, 27, 58-59 Lafond, Jean, 3 Lautr ~amont, comte de.[pseud. of Isidore Ducasse), 114-17 Lewis, Philip, 35 Liancourt manuscript, 24, 42, 47, 51-52,75,82-83,153n2 Loyalty, 52-53 Lucidity, 33-34, 59, 66 Magnanimity, 53 Malebranche, Nicolas, 158n7 Manzon, Jean, 112-13 Marcus Aurelius,9 -Mask as metaphor, 27-29 174 and the moralist, 29-30 and the nature of the socialbeing , 81-82 Mathieu-Castellani, Gis~le, 17 Maxim, and truth, 37-38, 128-29 Maximes,' See also Liancourt manuscript . on age and experience, 21 on change, 22 definitive edition of 1678, 83, 15~n2 on disguise, 81, 86, 91 frontispiece of the 1665 edition , 1 on gratitude, 88-&9 on grief, 51 on honnitete, 98,99, 100 on human nature; 126 on humility, 88 on the humors, 23 on imitation, 86 . on inconstancy, 22 on indolence, -63-64 on jealousy, 53 on justice, 89 on kings, 90 on love, 58 on magnanimity, 53 on moderation, 87 on motivation, 87 on the passions, 58, 59, 61, 66 on pride, 45, 55 . on self-interest, 43-44, 49, 51, 106 on self-love, 52, 54, 55 on sincerity, 91 on society, 83, 93 . on truth, 127 on truth and beauty, 36 on virtue and vice, 70, 71, 73, 74,75,76 - Maxime supprimee. I, 25-26, 40-41,46-47,49-50 M~r~, Antoine Gombaud, chevalier de, 48, 160n5 on the passions, 65-66 Merit, 83~84, 90 Metaphor, 16, 28, 32, 43, 48, 58, 83 Moderation, 87 Moliere, 25, 98 Montaigne, Michel de, 9, 15 and the quest for truth, 125 on truth and lies, 4 Morello, Andre-Alain, 128 Movement,·57-58 Nicole, Pierre, 32,60-61, 159nl Nietzsche, Friedrich, 2, 74 on concealing the truth from others, 81-82 on the durability of the maxim, 37-38 and La Rochefoucauld, 117-21 on love as a sour~e of falsehood, 62 Orgueil. See Pride Original Sin, 72 Ostentation, 87 Paresse. See Indolence Pascal, Blaise, 3,24...