• The philosophes (French for 'philosophers') were the intellectuals of the 18th-century European Enlightenment. Few were primarily philosophers; rather...
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    Thérèse Philosophe (Therese the Philosopher) is a 1748 French novel ascribed to Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, or, according to a minority opinion...
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  • The New Philosophers (French: nouveaux philosophes) is the generation of French philosophers who are united by their respective breaks from Marxism in...
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    January 1743 – 14 October 1803) was a French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu ("the unknown philosopher"), the name under which his works were...
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  • Projet de communauté philosophe (translated as Project for a Philosophical Community) is a book written by the French philosopher Victor d'Hupay, published...
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  • Companies. Cinram was established in 1969 in a Montreal basement by Isidore Philosophe and Samuel Sokoloff. The company started manufacturing pre-recorded eight-track...
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    False but influential letters depict him as a somewhat more radical philosophe than he probably was. His policies are now known as Josephinism. He was...
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    Street" literature in the late 18th and early 19th centuries aimed at the philosophes. He delves into the obscure world of the "low Counter-Enlightenment"...
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    embrace of the rationalistic or "classical" ideals of Enlightenment philosophes. According to some historians, it was at this time when the concept of...
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    l'esprit (1942) Préliminaires à la mythologie (1943) Propos sur des philosophes (1961) Souvenirs sans égards, (2010) Lettres aux deux amies (2014) Journal...
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (category Philosophes)
    [ʒɑ̃ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress...
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    in France simply as BHL, he was one of the leaders of the "Nouveaux Philosophes" (New Philosophers) movement in 1976. His opinions, political activism...
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    geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes. Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic...
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  • Marcel Hénaff, philosophe et anthropologue". Le Monde. Retrieved July 2, 2018. Enjalbert, Cedric (June 21, 2018). "Mort du philosophe Marcel Hénaff"....
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    Flammarion, 2006 ISBN 9782081233904 / J'ai Lu, 2008 ISBN 9782290002995 Les Philosophes sur le divan - Quand Freud rencontre Platon, Kant et Sartre, Flammarion...
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  • the Militaire philosophe this combination accounts for the positive side of their deism. Gueudeville, Lahontan and the Militaire philosophe all traveled...
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    Caro. Paris: Bloud. Buche, Joseph (1904). Blanc de Saint-Bonnet, le Philosophe de la Douleur. Trévoux: Imprimerie Jules Jeannin. Burton, Richard (1993)...
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    Voltaire (category Philosophes)
    /vɔːl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity...
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    19-year-long squat in Geneva. It occupied two buildings on the Boulevard des Philosophes, a few blocks away from the main campus of the University of Geneva....
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  • blabla et le chichi des philosophes, PUF, coll. « Perspectives critiques », ISBN 9782130521471 2002: Pensées d’un philosophe sous Prozac, Milan 2004:...
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    weakness, and for losing New France to the British. The writings of the philosophes such as Voltaire were a clear sign of discontent, but the king chose...
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    periodical publication called L'Indigent philosophe appeared in 1727, and another called Le Cabinet du philosophe in 1734. But the same causes which had...
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    (2012). Rousseau's Counter-Enlightenment: A Republican Critique of the Philosophes. SUNY series in Social and Political Thought. State University of New...
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    propres livres; Sur ses propres livres; Que l'excellent médecin est aussi philosophe Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 2007, lxxvii–lxxx Kilgour, Frederick G. (1957)...
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    for some years. In 1727 he portrayed his domestic circumstances in Le Philosophe Marié (The Married Philosopher). Upon returning to France in 1723, he...
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    adopted by the authors of the United States Constitution. While the philosophes of the French Enlightenment were not revolutionaries and many were members...
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    It was during this period that she first read Voltaire and the other philosophes of the French Enlightenment. As she learned Russian, she became increasingly...
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    and titled interchangeably Philosophe en méditation and Philosophe en contemplation, or referred to simply as the Philosophes. The companion painting shows...
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  • are Histoire de Dom Bougre, Portier des Chartreux (1741) and Thérèse Philosophe (1748). Precursors to the libertine writers were Théophile de Viau (1590–1626)...
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    depiction of the struggle of the Church of the Faithful with Enlightenment philosophes in chapter VI. Hegel's proper account of Christianity, however, is to...
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