Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.
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Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Sep 29, Christopherseelie rated it liked it. Charming mash of personal fancy and history of letters. So the saga continues in the De Piaget family I always like Kurland books but I wish she would change her format a little. I think this would have been an opportunity to keep things in the present. Jun 05, Alex Lee rated it really liked it Shelves: Good introduction to Diderot.
You get an idea that he was a first class "man of letters" although there isn't much in the way of writing that he has left behind. The biggest accomplishment, in a way, was the first encyclopedia of knowledge. I don't know too much about literature of this time period, but Morley seems fairly knowledgeable about the time, the struggles and Diderot's influence. He survived but didn't become wealthy.
Was more interested in finding facts about the world, and in that se Good introduction to Diderot. Was more interested in finding facts about the world, and in that sense, was a scientist more than a philosopher, although science as we know it today didn't exist in the s.
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I am mostly impressed with Diderot's character, as Morley also admires him. Interesting glimpse into the past. Diderot's insistence on calibrating understanding to the level of one's surroundings -- his letter on what it must be like to be deaf or mute was in some ways, a crude but first look at beginning to understand the end of the Classical period. That logic presentation does not take a standard form for everyone, that one's experiences change one's reasoning axoims. The first stabs at theorization with shifting basis. Share your thoughts with other customers.
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