Diderot’s early philosophical writings
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Diderot’s early philosophical writings are a set of pioneering 18th-century texts in which Denis Diderot begins to articulate his emerging Enlightenment views on religion, morality, and reason.
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| Diderot’s early philosophical writings canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Enlightenment text
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literary work ⓘ philosophical work ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Encyclopédie
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surface form:
Encyclopédie project
French Enlightenment ⓘ |
| author | Denis Diderot ⓘ |
| censorshipStatus | subject to censorship ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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philosophy ⓘ |
| historicalContext | pre-Revolutionary France ⓘ |
| influenced |
19th-century freethought
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Enlightenment atheism ⓘ later French materialism ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Baruch Spinoza
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John Locke ⓘ Pierre Bayle ⓘ classical skepticism ⓘ |
| legacy |
foundational for Diderot’s later philosophy
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important in history of secular thought ⓘ |
| mainLanguage | French ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
epistemology
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ethics ⓘ morality ⓘ reason ⓘ religion ⓘ |
| movement |
French Enlightenment
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surface form:
Enlightenment
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| philosophicalPosition |
critique of religious dogmatism
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defense of individual conscience ⓘ emphasis on empirical knowledge ⓘ skepticism toward miracles ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
materialism
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rationalism ⓘ secularism ⓘ |
| reception | controversial in 18th-century France ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
De la suffisance de la religion naturelle
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Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient ⓘ Lettre sur les sourds et muets à l’usage de ceux qui entendent et qui parlent ⓘ Pensées philosophiques ⓘ Promenade du sceptique ⓘ |
| thematicFocus |
critique of religious authority
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critique of revealed religion ⓘ defense of reason ⓘ freedom of thought ⓘ natural morality ⓘ tolerance ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 18th century ⓘ |
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