Philosophical Thoughts and Other Texts
Immediately upon publication, this book "stirred up quite a scandal, and introduced the world to a new athlete, all the harder to beat, since he hit you from all sides at once; he seems to assume different forms, and in this respect he could say, like the devil, 'Our name is Legion'" (Naigeon, 'Memoires'). A scandal, to be sure: the book was promptly banned, burned and its anonymous author was pursued by the authorities.
The author later became a guiding mind of the Englightment with his Encyclopedia. In this, his first published book, Diderot launches a sustained attack on his twin enemies: superstition (i.e. Christianity, the Bible, miracles, and revelation) and atheism. The truth, he thought, lies with deism: God is knowable through his masterpiece, the world and all it contains.
This fully revised translation includes the following texts:
Philosophical Thoughts
Addition to the "Philosophical Thoughts"
Unpublished Thoughts
On the Sufficiency of Natural Religion
Ruling of the Parlement of Paris Regarding the "Philosophical Thoughts"
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The author later became a guiding mind of the Englightment with his Encyclopedia. In this, his first published book, Diderot launches a sustained attack on his twin enemies: superstition (i.e. Christianity, the Bible, miracles, and revelation) and atheism. The truth, he thought, lies with deism: God is knowable through his masterpiece, the world and all it contains.
This fully revised translation includes the following texts:
Philosophical Thoughts
Addition to the "Philosophical Thoughts"
Unpublished Thoughts
On the Sufficiency of Natural Religion
Ruling of the Parlement of Paris Regarding the "Philosophical Thoughts"
Philosophical Thoughts and Other Texts
Immediately upon publication, this book "stirred up quite a scandal, and introduced the world to a new athlete, all the harder to beat, since he hit you from all sides at once; he seems to assume different forms, and in this respect he could say, like the devil, 'Our name is Legion'" (Naigeon, 'Memoires'). A scandal, to be sure: the book was promptly banned, burned and its anonymous author was pursued by the authorities.
The author later became a guiding mind of the Englightment with his Encyclopedia. In this, his first published book, Diderot launches a sustained attack on his twin enemies: superstition (i.e. Christianity, the Bible, miracles, and revelation) and atheism. The truth, he thought, lies with deism: God is knowable through his masterpiece, the world and all it contains.
This fully revised translation includes the following texts:
Philosophical Thoughts
Addition to the "Philosophical Thoughts"
Unpublished Thoughts
On the Sufficiency of Natural Religion
Ruling of the Parlement of Paris Regarding the "Philosophical Thoughts"
The author later became a guiding mind of the Englightment with his Encyclopedia. In this, his first published book, Diderot launches a sustained attack on his twin enemies: superstition (i.e. Christianity, the Bible, miracles, and revelation) and atheism. The truth, he thought, lies with deism: God is knowable through his masterpiece, the world and all it contains.
This fully revised translation includes the following texts:
Philosophical Thoughts
Addition to the "Philosophical Thoughts"
Unpublished Thoughts
On the Sufficiency of Natural Religion
Ruling of the Parlement of Paris Regarding the "Philosophical Thoughts"
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| BN ID: | 2940157855994 |
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| Publisher: | Kirk Watson |
| Publication date: | 01/27/2016 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Sales rank: | 896,933 |
| File size: | 168 KB |
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