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The Origins of Freemasonry in France The Origins of Freemasonry in France
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Freemasonry and the Associational World of Eighteenth-Century France Freemasonry and the Associational World of Eighteenth-Century France
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The Masonic Utopia of Friendship The Masonic Utopia of Friendship
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A Private Bond with Public Benefits A Private Bond with Public Benefits
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The Fragility of Friendship in Society: The Problem of Self-Love and the Passions The Fragility of Friendship in Society: The Problem of Self-Love and the Passions
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1 The Masonic Utopia of Friendship
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Published:July 2014
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Abstract
This chapter examines how Freemasonry grew during the 1730s and 1740s and situates this development within France's larger associational world. After tracing the origins of Freemasonry in France, it considers how Masons envisioned and ordered lodge life in the first half of the eighteenth century. It then describes how Freemasonry's participants outlined the principles of order and collective identity of their organization and how they understood their relationship to other modes of sociability and to French society at large. It also analyzes the thought of Andrew-Michael Ramsay, one of the founding fathers of Freemasonry in France, to show how brethren optimistically anchored masonic life in male friendship while recognizing the problematic nature of friendship owing to the assumed nature of the self. The chapter concludes by elaborating on friendship in relation to the concern over the presence of self-love and the power of the passions over reason.
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