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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 ...political theorists, the philosophes of eighteenth-century France...improving the secular order, the philosophes proposed social, ethical...Montesquieu, who dominated the philosophe movement during the first...of 1789, the more radical philosophes were viewed as having brought...
Helvétius, Claude-Adrien (1715–1771)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...for taking thoughts common to all the philosophes and presenting them in a scandalous...party of humanity." But whereas other philosophes asserted the aforesaid views without...for a position that the exasperated philosophes regarded as impolitic, needlessly inflammatory...
La Mettrie, Julien Offroy De (1709–1751)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...m é decin-philosophe could be an agent for...m é decin-philosophe was gleaned from an...style of Enlightenment philosophes, he also applied a...m é decin-philosophe as an agent of rational...Enlightenment. The philosophes, however, found his...
Enlightenment, Impact of
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Enlightenment. Originated with the French philosophes, especially Charles de Secondant Montesquieu...and accommodation of the ideas of the philosophes. These ideas spurred new scientific...however. While the writings of the philosophes were widely translated and read, Russian...
Alembert, Jean Le Rond D' (1717–1783)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...1778) in leading the philosophe movement, the very...legitimacy on many of the philosophes' deepest concerns...goals of the other philosophes, his correspondence...end by promoting the philosophe party at large and...him as leader of the philosophes. Much of d'Alembert...
Enlightened Despotism
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...commentators, known collectively as philosophes — described the kind of government...Struensee were frequently mentioned by the philosophes as models of enlightened governance...All of these reforms were seen by the philosophes as part of a long-planned program...
Comte de Sade
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Enlightenment, the side at which the philosophes railed. Very little is known of Sade...similar in many ways to that of the philosophes. Some writers believe that he carried the beliefs of the philosophes to the rational conclusions, which...
Beccaria, Cesare Bonesana, Marquis of (1738–1794)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...when he began to read the works of the French and Scottish philosophes and discuss them with a circle of young friends led by Pietro...Beccaria journeyed to Paris to bask in the admiration of the philosophes there, but Beccaria quickly became despondent and fled back...
Madame Roland
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...was born into an age of reason and wit, the France of the philosophes. After spending the first two years of her life with a wet...Historian Gita May has concluded that "from her study of the philosophes, Manon came away a resolute optimist and a firm upholder...
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...beyond the law and administration. He was a friend of the philosophes and frequented the intellectual salons of Paris; in 1760...Churchmen, moreover, were suspicious of this friend of the philosophes who "did not attend Mass" and was suspected of favoring...

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philosopher
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology ...x2014; AN. philo- , filosofre , var. of (O)F. philosophe — L. philosophus — Gr. phil...philosopher , L. philosophārī , Gr. philosopheîn . philosophy ( -Y3 ) XIII.
Alembert, Jean Le Rond D’
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...mathematician. In the 1740 ’ s he became part of the philosophes , thus joining in the rising tide of criticism of the social...D ’ Alembert spent his time much as the other philosophes did: working during the morning and afternoon and spending...
Condillac, Étienne Bonnot, Abbé De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...achieving as a writer on economic matters the reputation of philosophe somewhat earlier than did Condillac, who took the name by...together weekly. He was soon of the inner circle of the philosophes, and alone among them attained to what in any century would...
La Mettrie, Julien Offray De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...even among the relatively tolerant Dutch. Its author, now regarded by the public as the most daring and dangerous of the Philosophes, was forced to flee again, this time to the court of Frederick II of Prussia, where he was appointed a member of the Royal...
Poivre, Pierre
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...e, L. L. (Louis-Mathieu Langl è s)] (Paris, 1797), which includes “ Voyages d ’ un philosophe ou Observations sur les moeurs et les arts des peuples de I ’ Afrique, de I ’ Asie et de I ’...
Maillet, Benoīt De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...xE9; gypte (1735) and wrote most of his system on the diminution of the sea, Telliamed ou entretiens d ’ un philosophe indien avec un missionaire fran ç ois sur la diminution de la mer, la formation de la terre, l ’ origine...
Kantianism and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Lemaigre See also: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; . Bibliography Assoun, Paul-Laurent. (1976). Freud, la philosophie et les philosophes . Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. Guyomard, Patrick. (1992). La jouissance du tragique, Antigone, Lacan...
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...
Condorcet, Antoine Nicolas, Marquis de
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...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 the leading revolutionaries Emmanuel...
Goretta, Claude
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...marked Goretta's return to his roots in documentary filmmaking. This leisurely biographical portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau stars François Simon as the famed philosophe who remains one of the most celebrated figures in Sw

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The Autocritique of Enlightenment: Rousseau and the Philosophes.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...internal debate between Rousseau and the philosophes. Dedicated to his teacher, Judith...often only stating or radicalizing the philosophes' own self-doubts - their autocritique...ardent republican, Rousseau attacked the philosophes' praise or appeasement of monarchy...
Freud, la philosophie et les philosophes
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; Freud, la philosophie et les philosophes, par Paul-Laurent Assoun. Paris, Quadrige/P.U.F...rationalit philosophique et la complicit intime avec tels philosophes (p. 380). Cet ouvrage comporte deux versions de l'enqute...
Diderot et la Revolution Francaise: Controverses et polemique autour d'un philosophe.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...Revolution Francaise: Controverses et polemique autour d'un philosophe. By RENE TARIN Preface by ROLAND DESNE Paris: Champion...Supplement au voyage de Bougainville and the Entretien d'un philosophe avec la Marechale de ***. In his final chapter Tarin shows...
DID WOMEN HAVE AN ENLIGHTENMENT? GRAFFIGNY'S ZILIA AS FEMALE PHILOSOPHE.
Magazine article from: The Romanic Review; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...Women were certainly a favorite topic of the Enlightenment philosophe, whose fascination with otherness made the opposite sex a...feminist critic who dismantles the binds of patriarchy using the philosophe's own critical tools. The foremost of these tools is defamiliarization...
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...
Suburban philosophes
Newspaper article from: Naperville Sun, The (IL); 11/19/2007; 556 words ; ...great conversations about politics, religion, metaphysics. Ya know, whatever." Woodbury: "We are like the modern day philosophes. They sat around and drank coffee and discussed philosophy and religion, and I guess we kinda do that ... in between...
The infamous philosophe.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...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...
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; 573 words ; 9789004165366 Pierre Bayle (1647-1706), le philosophe de Rotterdam; philosophy, religion, and reception; proceedings. Tercentenary Conference (2006: Rotterdam) Ed. by Wiep...
Esthetique des philosophes.
Magazine article from: Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine; 7/1/1997; 617 words ; ...sous la dir. de), L'Esthetique des philosophes, textes de Richard Shusterman, Gerard...Rainer Rochlitz, L'Esthetique des philosophes etait le titre d'une serie de conferences...de Jacques Serrano, reunissant des philosophes dont les ecrits structurent le debat...
Un philosophe libertin dans l'Europe baroque. Giulio Cesare Vanini (1585-1619).(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Biography; 9/22/2005; ; 446 words ; Vanini, Giulio Cesare Un philosophe libertin dans l'Europe baroque. Giulio Cesare Vanini (1585- 1619). Didier Foucault. Paris: Champion, 2003. 783 pp...