![]() ![]() Bartholomew Day massacres bloodied the Seine in 1572. ![]() The civil war between French Catholics and Huguenots began with the Massacre of Vassy in 1562. What people actually did was frequently inhumane and mad. He wanted to know how to live a good life – meaning a correct or honourable life, but also a fully human, satisfying, flourishing one.” “Moral dilemmas interested Montaigne, but he was less interested in what people ought to do than in what they actually did. “This is not the same as the ethical question, ‘How should one live?’” notes Sarah Bakewell. An open question demanded a response: How to live? Revisions clarified and enlarged Montaigne’s perceptions while erasing narrow conclusions. One of his favorite philosophers, the Skeptic physician Sextus Empiricus, had doubted whether anything is objectively knowable and preferred to suspend judgment. Michel de Montaigne was still revising his essays when he died at age fifty-nine in 1592. ![]()
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