Denis Diderot
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Diderot : Philosophical Thoughts – Additions to the Philosophical Thoughts
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Written in 1746, without author's name, and immediately condemned to fire by the Paris Parliament, the Philosophical Thoughts take part in Christianity, and beyond all revealed religions: or faith is compatible with human reason and religions must accept doubt and criticism and reform themselves to join "natural religion"; or it is not, and how to admit then that God demand men to sacrifice their reason for him? Thi…
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Diderot : Thoughts on the Interpretation of Nature
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The Thoughts on the Interpretation of Nature are an emblematic work of the spirit of the Enlightenment. Written in the margins of the publication of the Encyclopaedia in 1753, they measure the epistemological and metaphysical upheavals that accompany the birth of the new experimental sciences of life and earth. The discovery of fossils and the analysis of the layers that make up the earth's globe, for example, contr…
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Diderot : Treatise on Beauty
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We know that Diderot assumed his role as a moralist and that he praised Greuze, among other things, because his painting educated and edited the viewer, giving him lessons of virtue. Although he fears that beauty as goodness often hurts, little is already necessary, in the Treaty of Beau, that Diderot associates the beautiful, except with the useful and the true, at least to the good (the Holy Trinity of the moral c…
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