Thematic
Enlightenment, Continental
The Enlightenment is frequently portrayed as a campaign on behalf of freedom and reason as against dogmatic faith and its sectarian and barbarous consequences in the history of ...
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Biographical
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de (1707–88)
Both as a scientist and as a writer, Buffon was one of the most highly esteemed figures of the European Enlightenment. In depicting the perpetual flux of the ...
Biographical
Diderot, Denis (1713–84)
Chief editor of the great eighteenth-century Encyclopédie (1751–72), Diderot set out a philosophy of the arts and sciences which took the progress of civilization to be a measure ...
Biographical
Monboddo, Lord (James Burnett) (1714–99)
In speculating that orang-utans’ vocal organs must have been designed for speech, Monboddo was convinced that these creatures were primitive humans who had not yet entered society. His ...