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    Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (French: [dɔlbak]; 8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist...
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    du Monde Moral) is a 1770 work of philosophy by Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach. The work was originally published under the name of Jean-Baptiste...
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  • the Age of Enlightenment, many of them clustered around the salon of Baron d'Holbach. Although there are important differences between them, all of them...
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  • who have not been exposed to theistic ideas. As far back as 1772, Baron d'Holbach said that "All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God...
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    her acquaintanceship with Denis Diderot, Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Baron d'Holbach and other French men of letters during the Enlightenment. She was also...
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  • Johnson Fox: 172–173  Anthony Hammond: 198  Claude Adrien Helvétius Baron d'Holbach Francis Hutcheson Edmund Law James Mill John Neal: 367–369  William...
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    et al (1972). "Baron d'Holbach – Good Sense". Archived from the original on 19 October 2007. Retrieved 2 October 2007. Baron d'Holbach – Good Sense: Transcription...
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    Rembrandt, Christiaan Huygens, Hugo Grotius, Benedictus Spinoza, and later Baron d'Holbach were active in Leiden and environs. The university has seven academic...
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  • students was Baron d'Holbach. He spent the summer of 1746 with him at the Heeze-Leende estate of his uncle, Messire François-Adam, Baron d'Holbach, Seigneur...
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    and led to a close association with the Encyclopaedists Diderot, Baron d'Holbach, d'Alembert, Marmontel, Morellet and Helvétius, who were meeting at...
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    February 1983. His first book, The True Believer, was published in 1951. Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789): French philosopher and encyclopedist, one of the first...
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  • Diderot wrote to his mistress, telling of a visit by Hume to the Baron D'Holbach, and describing how a word for the position that Huxley would later...
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    America and later elsewhere. The following excerpt from a 1695 letter to Baron J. C. Boyneburg's son Philipp is very revealing of Leibniz's political sentiments:...
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    Variations can be found in Maupertuis (1756), Nicolas de Condorcet (1768), Baron D'Holbach (1770), and an undated fragment in the archives of Diderot. Recent...
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  • Enlightenment movement, is a guest at the château of the Baron d'Holbach. The film depicts the Baron (in reality a major sponsor of Diderot) as a benign host...
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  • Chombart de Lauwe (1913–1998), French sociologist Paul-Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789), Franco-German philosopher Paul-Henry Nargeolet (1946–2023)...
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  • Malebranche Gottfried W Leibniz William Wollaston Thomas Chubb David Hume Baron d'Holbach Immanuel Kant Johann G Herder 19th-century Friedrich Schleiermacher...
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  • Malebranche Gottfried W Leibniz William Wollaston Thomas Chubb David Hume Baron d'Holbach Immanuel Kant Johann G Herder 1800 1850 Friedrich Schleiermacher Karl...
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    they claim not to be atheists), and children. As far back as 1772, Baron d'Holbach said that "All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God"...
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  • Guillaume Le Blond André le Breton Georges-Louis Le Sage Antoine Louis Baron d'Holbach Louis de Jaucourt Jacques-Raymond Lucotte Philippe-Antoine Magimel...
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    Khayyam, Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz, David Hume, Baron d'Holbach (Paul Heinrich Dietrich), Pierre-Simon Laplace, Arthur Schopenhauer...
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    Diderot Ludwig Feuerbach A. C. Grayling Sam Harris Christopher Hitchens Baron d'Holbach Lawrence Krauss Michael Lou Martin Karl Marx Jean Meslier Friedrich...
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    for him access to the salons of Mme. Geoffrin, Helvétius, and the Baron d'Holbach. In May 1754, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1775...
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    Malebranche Gottfried W Leibniz William Wollaston Thomas Chubb David Hume Baron d'Holbach Immanuel Kant Johann G Herder 19th-century Friedrich Schleiermacher...
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    Diderot Ludwig Feuerbach A. C. Grayling Sam Harris Christopher Hitchens Baron d'Holbach Lawrence Krauss Michael Lou Martin Karl Marx Jean Meslier Friedrich...
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  • Malebranche Gottfried W Leibniz William Wollaston Thomas Chubb David Hume Baron d'Holbach Immanuel Kant Johann G Herder 19th-century Friedrich Schleiermacher...
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  • Malebranche Gottfried W Leibniz William Wollaston Thomas Chubb David Hume Baron d'Holbach Immanuel Kant Johann G Herder 1800 1850 Friedrich Schleiermacher Karl...
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  • among a group of English writers beginning with Edward Herbert (later 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury) in the first half of the 17th century and ending with...
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    generation of life were cited by French Enlightenment philosopher Baron d'Holbach in his atheist work, the System of Nature. An Account of Some New Microscopical...
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  • Malebranche Gottfried W Leibniz William Wollaston Thomas Chubb David Hume Baron d'Holbach Immanuel Kant Johann G Herder 1800 1850 Friedrich Schleiermacher Karl...
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