Author: Fénélon, François de Salignac de la Mothe
Title: Démonstration De L'Existence De Dieu, Tirée De L'Art De La Nature, Des Preuves Purement Intellectuelles, Et De L'Idée De L'Infini Même
Description: Chez Amable Leroy, Lyon, 1805, reprint. Full contemporary sprinkled calf, VG+. xx+387pp, spine gilt, small nick in the leather at the base of the upper board, complete with the half title, an attractive near fine copy. Old Library lable of the Freres Perisse, Lyon on the pastedown. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Ontological work attributed to the French Bishop & Royal tutor François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, [ 1651 - 1715 ]. Originally published in 1712 without Fénélon's knowledge, ( and with a second part appearing postumously in 1718 ), the work is 'an almost forgotten work of his youth, it was received with much approval, and was soon translated into English and German. It is from his letters and this treatise that we learn something about the philosophy of Fénelon. It borrows from both St. Augustine and Descartes'. [Catholic Enc.]

Keywords: ontology, religion, catholicism, christianity, philosophy, theology