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American Philosophical Society
American Philosophical Society first scientific society in America, founded (1743) in Philadelphia. It was an outgrowth of the Junto formed (1727) by Benjamin Franklin. Franklin was the first secretary of the society, and Thomas Hopkinson the first president. In 1769 it merged with the American Soc... Read more
Eunapius
Eunapius , b. c.347, Greek Neoplatonic philosopher, whose Lives of the Philosophers and Sophists is a most valuable primary source. His continuation of Dexippus' history is lost. Like many Neoplatonists he opposed Christianity. ... Read more
Bardesanes
Bardesanes , 154?-222?, Christian philosopher and poet of Syria, missionary among the Armenians. Conflicting traditions report him both as defender of the faith against various Gnostic sects and as a heretic and founder of Bardesanism. ... Read more
Adelard of Bath
Adelard of Bath , fl. 12th cent., English scholastic philosopher, celebrated for his study of Arabic learning. He translated Euclid from Arabic into Latin. His major works were Perdifficiles quaestiones naturales, which embodied his scientific studies, and De eodem et diverso, his principal phil... Read more
belief
belief in philosophy, commitment to something, involving intellectual assent. Philosophers have disagreed as to whether belief is active or passive; René Descartes held that it is a matter of will, while David Hume thought that it was an emotional commitment, and C. S. Peirce considered it a... Read more
Bernard Bosanquet
Bernard Bosanquet , 1848-1923, English philosopher, educated at Oxford. He lectured there (1871-81) and at St. Andrews (1903-8). His major works include A History of Aesthetic (1892), The Philosophical Theory of the State (1899), and The Value and Destiny of the Individual (1913). They exempli... Read more
category
category philosophical term that literally means predication or assertion. It was first used by Aristotle, whose 10 categories formed a list of all the ways in which assertions can be made of a subject. Immanuel Kant's 12 categories constitute an exhaustive list of the a priori forms through which ... Read more
pessimism
pessimism philosophical opinion or doctrine that evil predominates over good; the opposite of optimism. Systematic forms of pessimism may be found in philosophy and religion. In religion Buddhism and Hinduism pessimistically appraise the world, while Christianity's pessimism is more restricted. Num... Read more
pluralism
pluralism in philosophy, theory that considers the universe explicable in terms of many principles or composed of many ultimate substances. It describes no particular system and may be embodied in such opposed philosophical concepts as materialism and idealism . Empedocles , G. W. von Leibniz ... Read more
Pyrrho
Pyrrho , c.360-270 BC, Greek philosopher, a native of Elis, regarded as the father of skepticism . After accompanying Alexander the Great to Asia, he enjoyed great respect at Elis and Athens. His doctrines were preserved by his disciple, Timon of Phlius, in satires. Pyrrho taught that nothing can... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "philosophe"

Philosophes
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World PHILOSOPHES PHILOSOPHES. Literary writers, scientists, economists, and political theorists, the philosophes of eighteenth-century France explored topics and issues that ranged across a broad spectrum of thought. Yet they shared the assumption that... Read more
Gustavus III
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Sweden from 1771 to 1792. He was an enlightened despot and a philosophe. Born on Jan. 24, 1746, Gustavus III was the eldest son of...He died on March 29. Gustavus III, enlightened despot and philosophe, modeled his court on Versailles. He promoted the liberty... Read more
Diderot, Deni (1713 – 1784)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World DIDEROT, DENI (1713 – 1784) DIDEROT, DENIS (1713 – 1784), philosophe and encyclopedist. Denis Diderot was born in Langres on 5 October 1713, the son of Didier Diderot, a master cutler. Although Diderot... Read more
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Castel, Abb é de Saint-Pierre (1658-1743), was an early philosophe of the Enlightenment. His pamphleteering expressed the intellectual...XIV of Voltaire. Curiously, Voltaire and most of the later philosophes, including Jean Jacques Rousseau, disdained the Abb é... Read more
Marquis de Condorcet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Condorcet (1743-1794), expressed the spirit of the Enlightenment in reform proposals and writings on progress. He was the only philosophe to participate in the French Revolution. Born in Ribemont in Picardy on Sept. 17, 1743, the Marquis de Condorcet was educated... Read more
Élie Fréron
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition , 1718-76, French critic and journalist. His critical journal, Année littéraire, virulently attacked the philosophes of the Enlightenment. Voltaire made him a butt of his ridicule in several of his works. Read more
La Mettrie, Julien Offroy De (1709 – 1751)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...x2013; 1751), French physician and philosopher. Julien Offroy de La Mettrie is best...developed his notion of the m é decin-philosophe who incorporated the astute empirical...physician, and the zeal of the reform-minded philosophe. The m é decin-philosophe could... Read more
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...de Bougainville was born in Paris on Nov. 12, 1729, and early established a reputation as a mathematician. A friend of the philosophe Jean le Rond d'Alembert, Bougainville was elected to the British Royal Society in 1754 in recognition of a work on calculus... Read more
Destouches
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre ...contracted a secret marriage with an Englishwoman which later supplied him with the material for one of his best works, Le Philosophe marié (1727), adapted by Mrs Inchbald as The Married Man (1789). His stay in England may account for the mingling of... Read more
Marc Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy Argenson, comte d'
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...administrative control of the city of Paris. The Champs Élysées and the Place de la Concorde were planned by him. He was a friend and patron of the philosophes, and Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert dedicated the Encyclopédie to him. Read more

Dictionary entries related to "philosophe"

philosopher
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology philosopher XIV. — AN. philo- , filosofre , var. of (O)F. philosophe — L. philosophus — Gr. philósophos...philosophicus . philosophize XVI. corr. in use to F. philosopher , L. philosophārī , Gr. philosopheî... Read more
Condorcet, Antoine Nicolas, Marquis de
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Condorcet, Antoine Nicolas, Marquis de (1743–94) French philosopher and politician. He was the only prominent French philosophe to play any real part in the events of the Revolution. As a GIRONDIN and a friend of... Read more
Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...1745. She came from the world of wealthy officials and bankers, and was a lively witty woman, on friendly terms with the philosophes of the ENLIGHTENMENT . The people blamed her for the extravagance of the court and the disasters of the SEVEN YEARS WAR... Read more
Voltaire
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Voltaire, pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet (1694–1778), the most celebrated of the French ‘ Philosophes’. Throughout his life he opposed the Catholic Church, though he warmly defended Deism . His Lettres Philosophiques... Read more
Encyclopédists
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Encyclopédists The ‘ philosophes ’ and others who contributed to and otherwise supported the Encyclopédie , published in France in 35 volumes between... Read more
Enlightenment
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Britain. In France the Enlightenment was associated with the philosophes , the literary men, scientists, and thinkers who were united...flourished in Edinburgh between 1750 and 1800; its outstanding philosophers were Hume and Adam Smith and important scientific advances... Read more
Hume, David
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Hume, David (1711–76). Philosopher, religious sceptic, historian, and leading figure of the Scottish...Enlightenment project of rational theism. Unlike many of the French philosophes of his own time, however, and also his own later followers... Read more
Checks and Balances
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...conceptually an outgrowth of the political theory of John Locke and other seventeenth-century political theorists and coined by philosophes sometime in the eighteenth century. By the time the U.S. Constitutional Convention met in 1787, it was a term and a concept... Read more
Gance, Abel
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Vengeance d'Edgar Poe (Capellani) (sc); La Mort du Duc d'Enghien (Capellani) (sc); La Conspiration des drapeaux (sc); La Pierre philosophe (sc) 1914 L'Infirmi è re (Pouctal) (sc) 1920 L'Atre (Boudrioz) (pr) 1929 Napol é on auf St. Helena ( Napol é... Read more
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...de l'Éducation (1762) he summed up his religious beliefs. He advocated a Deism which, although similar to that of the Philosophes in affirming belief in the existence of God, the soul, and a future life, found its ultimate justification in the individual... Read more

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The haunted philosophe; James Madison, republicanism, and slavery.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 8/1/2008; 161 words ; 9780739121740 The haunted philosophe; James Madison, republicanism, and slavery. Kester, Scott J. Lexington Books 2008 132 pages $55.00 Hardcover E342 James Madison... Read more
Le Philosophe et la memoire du siecle. Tolerance, liberte et philosophie.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; Raymond Klibansky Le Philosophe et la memoire du siele. Tolerance, liberte et philosophie. Les belles lettres, 307 pages, 135 FF. We all know people who have led... Read more
The infamous philosophe.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...of Voltaire's complicated relationship with Catholicism is particularly revealing. For more than sixty years, the infamous philosophe preached religious toleration in a society where Protestant worship could send a man or woman to prison for life; his highly... Read more
Diderot et la Revolution Francaise: Controverses et polemique autour d'un philosophe.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2002; ; 553 words ; ...Revolution Francaise: Controverses et polemique autour d'un philosophe. By RENE TARIN Preface by ROLAND DESNE Paris: Champion. 2001...Supplement au voyage de Bougainville and the Entretien d'un philosophe avec la Marechale de ***. In his final chapter Tarin shows... Read more
Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), le philosophe de Rotterdam; philosophy, religion, and reception; proceedings.(Brief article)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 5/1/2009; 196 words ; 9789004165366 Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), le philosophe de Rotterdam; philosophy, religion, and reception; proceedings. Tercentenary Conference (2006: Rotterdam) Ed. by Wiep van Bunge... Read more
Jean-Theophile Desaguliers: un Huguenot, philosophe et juriste, en politique.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2002; ; 553 words ; Jean-Theophile Desaguliers: un Huguenot, philosophe et juriste, en politique. By PIERRE BOUTIN. (Les dix-huitiemes siecles, 38). Paris: Champion. 1999. 249 pp. Jean-Theophile Desaguliers... Read more
Privatisations: ou resister a la nostalgie d'un impossible retour au passe.
Magazine article from: Revue parlementaire canadienne; 6/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; Le philosophe francais Jacques Maritain a ecrit que <<l'homme n'est a aucun titre pour l'Etat. L'Etat est pour l'homme>>. Et Paul... Read more
Les seductions du Panopticon numerique.(Actualités/Débats)
Magazine article from: Etc. Montreal; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; Nous devons au philosophe utilitariste anglais Jeremy Bentham en 1787, paradoxalement à la veille de la Révolution française qui promut une... Read more
Michel Foucault, Le pouvoir psychiatrique. Cours au College de France.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Anthropologie et Societés; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...parfaitement les nombreuses recherches entamées par le philosophe dès sa nomination en 1970 à la chaire d'histoire...rapeutiques et le patient. Rappelons simplement que, pour le philosophe, le savoir dont se prévalent scientifiques et experts... Read more
Art contemporain ou la cloture de l'histoire.
Magazine article from: Etc. Montreal; 6/1/2001; 700+ words ; ...de Danto est relie a une these que le philosophe soutient depuis la publication de La...periode post-historique , analysee par le philosophe, se caracterise par le fait qu'il n...exclusion ou dans les termes de ce que le philosophe nomme la mort de la purete . Il faut... Read more