Diderot, the embattled philosopher
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Word Count
105,000 words, Guess
Page Count
420 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL14383237M
- OCLC Control Number872368
- Internet Archivediderotembattled00croc
- Library of Congress Control Number66022213
- LibraryThing4557074
Classifications
- DDC194
- LCCB2016 .C68 1966
Description
As a philosopher Diderot speculated on free will and held a completely materialistic view of the universe; he suggested all human behavior is determined by heredity. He therefore warned his fellow philosophers against an overemphasis on mathematics and against the blind optimism that sees in the growth of physical knowledge an automatic social and human progress. He rejected the Idea of Progress. In his opinion, the aim of progressing through technology was doomed to fail. He founded his philosophy on experiment and the study of probabilities. He wrote several articles and supplements concerning gambling, mortality rates, and inoculation against smallpox for the Encyclopédie.
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