Positive Atheism : Bayle, Meslier, d'Holbach, Diderot EPUB
by Charles Devellennes
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Charles Devellennes looks at the the religious, social and political thought of the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment: Pierre Bayle, Jean Meslier, Paul-Henri Thiry d'Holbach and Denis Diderot to explicitly argue for atheism as a positive philosophy.
He shows how atheism evolved considerably over the century that spans the works of these four authors: from the possibility of the virtuous atheist in the late 17th century, to a deeply rooted materialist philosophy with radical social and political consequences by the eve of the French revolution.
The metamorphosis of atheism from a purely negative phenomenon to one that became self-aware had profound consequences for establishing an ethics without God and the rise of republicanism as a political philosophy.
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- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:18/12/2020
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- Format:EPUB
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
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- ISBN:9781474478458