Word: diderot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dawn, worked 15 hours a day. She was no voluptuous debauchee: "her love-life resembled that of an important business man; it was simple, very sentimental, and rather pathetic." Catherine found her liberal-philosophizing theories sharply modified by the experience of ruling Russia. When Philosopher Diderot reproached her for her change of heart, she replied: "You philosophers are fortunate people. You write on patient paper-I, poor empress, am forced to write upon the ticklish skin of human beings." Darkest blot on her scutcheon was the murder of Ivan, the real heir to the throne, who had been kept...
...fundamental omission. "Obviously the disciples of the Newtonian philosophy had not ceased to worship. . . having denatured God, they deified nature." "The eighteenth century Philosophers, like the medieval scholastics, held fast to a revealed body of knowledge. . ." "The ideas (Dderot's) are essentially Christian .!): for the worship of God, Diderot has substituted respect for posterity; for the hopes of immortality in heaven, the hope of living in the memory of future generations." In insisting on the faith of the notoriously skeptical Philosophers and in ringing the changes on the religious character of their humanitarian philosophy, Professor Becker, has helped to correct...
...Encyclopedic de Diderot," Professor Morize, Emerson...
...Encyclopedie de Diderot," Professor Morize, Emerson...
...Diderot," Professor Morize, Emerson...