Events Tagged: "nature"

Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise' - 'I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them' - 'Nature has no end set before it' - Purpose is human projection

Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality: 'first person who fenced plot and said mine was founder of civil society'

Rousseau's Emile - revolutionary educational treatise, child isolated from society, manipulated by tutor

Diderot's 'Supplement to Bougainville's Voyage' portrays sexual freedom of 'natural' Tahitian society

D'Holbach's 'System of Nature' - pure mechanistic atheism: 'universe presents only matter and motion'

Condorcet writes Americans 'are what Rousseau wished us to become' - free from old prejudices