“The Insect” is one of the four remarkable works in which the late M. Michelet embodied the results of a loving and persevering study of ...
Continue Reading βCondillac’s Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, first published in French in 1746 and offered here in a new translation, represented in its time ...
Continue Reading βΓtienne Bonnot, AbbΓ© de Condillac, was the chief exponent of a radically empiricist account of the workings of the mind that has since come to ...
Continue Reading βThree Books of Occult Philosophy (De Occulta Philosophia libri III) is Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s study of occult philosophy, acknowledged as a significant contribution to the ...
Continue Reading βJules Michelet (1798 β 1874) was a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions.In his 1855 work, Histoire de ...
Continue Reading βZadig; or, The Book of Fate (French: Zadig ou la DestinΓ©e; 1747) is a novella and work of philosophical fiction by the Enlightenment writer Voltaire. ...
Continue Reading βSocrates (French: Socrate) is a 1759 French play in three acts written by Voltaire. It is set in Ancient Greece during the events just before ...
Continue Reading βThe Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary) is an encyclopedic dictionary published by the Enlightenment thinker Voltaire in 1764. The alphabetically arranged articles often criticize the Roman ...
Continue Reading βLetters on the English (or Letters Concerning the English Nation; French: Lettres philosophiques) is a series of essays written by Voltaire based on his experiences ...
Continue Reading βThe Council of Trent (Latin: Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent (or Trento, in northern Italy), was the 19th ecumenical council of ...
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