When he got out, Voltaire decided to broaden his horizons, and he visited first the Netherlands and then England, where he lived until 1729.Philosophical(哲学的) IdeasVoltaire’s three years in England saw him embark on a more philosophical approach to literature. He wrote his Letters on ...
Voltaire’s three years in England saw him embark on a more philosophical approach to literature. He wrote his Letters on England (aka Philosophical Letters) b 6 on his experiences in that country. The Letters was published in 1734 and favourably compared the relative openness and liberalism pres...
Benedetto Croce, one of the most influential philosophers of his time wrote a book on Vico (1913), translated into English by R.G. Collingwood, himself a major presence in Idealist aesthetics and philosophy of history. Vico emerges as a major influence on French thought in the 1890s when ...
For the next five years he lived on the outside of the city where he supported himself by grinding optical lenses. During this time, Spinoza wrote his first philosophical work Treatise on God and Man and His Happiness. This work explained and outlined a good part of Spinoza’s philosophical...
As a Catholic priest, he remained a part of the Catholic Church for his entire lifetime and worked to reform the church from within. Some of the main things that Erasmus wrote about and believed in were peacemaking, peace, and religious Irenicism. ...
It’s a sentimental mess, and relies entirely on the old trick of the surprise attack. That’s about as much as I can tell you without it being a spoiler. “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful,” wrote Seneca, summing...
I wouldn’t want to give the impression that everything about doing philosophy online has been wonderful, but on balance there hasn’t been a better time in history for the subject. This post is based on a newsletter I wrote for the online magazine Aeon.co (you can become a friend of...
This was later picked up by the democratic thinkers of the French Revolution, and others, like John Locke, who wrote that people had a right to "life, liberty, and property." To Locke, one's own body was part of their property, and thus one's right to property would theoretically guar...
s suffrage. His last public activity was concerned with the starting of theLand Tenure Reform Association, for which he wrote inThe Examinerand made a public speech a few months before his death; the interception by the state of the unearnedincrementon land and the promotion ofcooperative...
Jacques Rancière is an Algerian-born French philosopher who made important contributions to political philosophy, the philosophy of education, and aesthetics from the late 20th century. Rancière studied philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure in