The System of Nature (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Thiery, Paul Henri

 
9780367244972: The System of Nature (Routledge Revivals)
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ISBN 10: 0367244977 ISBN 13: 9780367244972
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Originally published in 1984. Paul Henri Thiery, Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), was the center of the radical wing of the philosophers. Holbach wrote, translated, edited, and issued a stream of books and pamphlets, often under other names, that has made him the despair of bibliographers but has connected his name, by innuendo, gossip, and association, with most of what was written in defeense of atheistic materialism in late eighteenth-century France.

Holbach is best known for The System of Nature (1770) and deservedly, since it is a clear exposition of his main ideas. His initial position determines all the rest of his argument: 'There is not, there can be nothing out of that Nature which includes all beings.' Conceiving of nature as strictly limited to matter and motion, both of which have always existed, he flatly denies that there is any such thing as spirit or supernatural.

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Paul Henri Thiery

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367244977
ISBN 13 
9780367244972
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
372

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