Fortune in The Complete Essays of Montaigne

• In Event: JSS 9
  In JSS Session: Live Ideas in the History of Political Thought

Brief Overview

Montaigne is not passively obedient to Fortune, but adapts himself in a way that interprets her to be favorable to his life. Montaigne’s lesson of Fortune is: if one cannot change her, then change one’s way of looking at her.

Author

• Yidi Wu, Boston College