Abstract
In the antiquity of Fenelon’s Telemaque, a wise man is doomed to eternal torment in Hades. However, Fenelon writes elsewhere that devotion such as that of Alcestis in the Banquet is such that it ‘almost makes one reach the end’. What is in question is nothing less than the relationship between natural love, including friendship as defined by the philosophers (Cicero), and ‘pure love’ or the love of God. This question is central to mysticism and also to the conception of salvation: in his Instruction pastorale sur le systeme de Jansenius, Fenelon thus refutes the narrow conception that he attributes to Fremont, who acts as the spokesman of the Jansenists.
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