School
Philosophes
Overview
a school of philosophy in 18th-century France, founded on the presumption that scientific knowledge is the key to unlock the mystery and resolve the riddle of the universe
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The doctrines concerning those two subjects were considered as making two distinct sciences. What are called metaphysics, or pneumatics, were set in opposition to physics, and were cultivated not only as the more sublime, but, for the purposes of a particular profession, as the more useful science of the two.
Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
States what Philosophes is; the author is tied to Philosophes in the knowledge graph.
In the course of two or three generations such questions were cut loose from their original practical bearing upon education and were discussed on their own account; that is, as matters of philosophy as an independent branch of inquiry. But the fact that the stream of European philosophical thought arose as a theory of educational procedure remains an eloquent witness to the intimate connection of philosophy and…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
Close in meaning to Philosophes; the term itself is not named.
This tenth volume will contain some very curious articles, which, if God favours us, will give new point to the salt which we shall endeavour to bestow in the thanks we shall give to these gentlemen. Executed on Mount Krapack, the thirtieth day of the month of Janus, the year of the world according to Scaliger 5722 according to Riccioli 5956 according to Eusebius 6972 according to the Alphonsine Tables 8707…
Voltaire, Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
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Philosophers who discussed Philosophes
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- William Godwin
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Cesare Beccaria
- Marquis de Condorcet
- Louis de Bonald
- Étienne-Gabriel Morelly
Related ideas
- Encyclopédie
- French Revolution
- Feudalism
- Horace Walpole
- Philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- John Locke
- Adam Smith
- Baron d'Holbach
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Cesare Beccaria
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Henri de Saint-Simon
- Natural law
- Intellectual
- Charles Fourier
- Saint Petersburg
- Age of Enlightenment
- Thomas Paine
- Organized religion
- Voltaire
- Baruch Spinoza
- Marquis de Condorcet
Place in the tradition
Part of French philosophy.