diderot in English

noun

family name; Denis Diderot (1713-1784), French writer and philosopher (editor of the French "Encyclopedie")

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1. Diderot endured imprisonment in the Chateau of Vincennes, and was threatened with the Bastille.

2. The Diderot effect is a social phenomenon related to consumer goods that comprises two ideas.

3. Vast spirit, active thought and industrious heart make a genius. ---France Denis Diderot.

4. Diderot, the patron of vast collaborations around a great, ambitious goal, would be proud.

5. Diderot only kind of humility, as the lack of fighting spirit, as the defensive.

6. Diderot, the patron of vast collaborations around a great, hugely ambitious goal, would be proud.

7. A vast expanse of spirit, activeness of imagination and diligence of the mind are talents. — Diderot.

8. Based on the concept of technology defined by Denis Diderot, this paper reinterpreted the meanings of soft - technology.

9. Explore 40 Barbarism Quotes by authors including Oscar Wilde, Thomas Sowell, and Denis Diderot at BrainyQuote

10. The first merit of P. N. Furbank's admirable biography is that it should revive interest in Diderot.

11. Since Composite was otherwise restricted to fairgrounds, Diderot was telling us something of his opinion of politicians.

12. A picture from the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembert, showing the different steps in sericulture and the manufacture of silk.

13. From this significance we can say that the most representative thinker of France Enlightenment in 18th century is Diderot.

14. If Nivelle de la Chaussee was the great playwright of sentimental comedy, then Denise Diderot was the great theorist.

15. All the same, despite his intelligence and charm, Diderot is perhaps less interesting in himself than as a symptom and influence.

16. He sketches the early lives of Diderot, Holbach, Rousseau and other players in the drama, and describes the philosophy they hammered out.

17. Even today, and even in secular western Europe, the bald and confident atheism and materialism of Diderot and Holbach seems mildly shocking.

18. The problm of organization, especially the debate between alphabetical order and thematic or scientific order, preoccupied Diderot in the preface to the Encyclopedie.

19. I hate Diderot, he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire.

20. 29 I hate Diderot, he is an ideologist, a declaimer, and a revolutionist, a believer in God at bottom, and more bigoted than Voltaire.

21. Rameau's Nephew by Shelly Berc and Andrei Belgrader, adapted from Le Neveu de Rameaby Denis Diderot, will be directed by Richard Henirch at Spooky Action Theatre, running October 20 - …

22. It was made the subject of a pompous (though not wholly serious) eulogy by Diderot, and was bought by the king, who had it reproduced at the Gobelins factory.

23. The encyclopedists, Diderot at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are four sacred legions.

24. Diderot was imprisoned for his writings, an experience, Mr Blom argues, that left him too scared to lay out his philosophy plainly, instead disguising it within numerous plays, novels and letters.

25. Affection is a tremendous strength, just as the 18th century French enlightenment thinker diderot pointed out: "have no feelings the quality,(sentencedict .com) any style are impossible to impress heart".

26. The encyclopedists, Diderot at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,--these are four sacred legions. Sentencedict.com

27. The French philosophical movement later called The Enlightenment began and gathered force during the reign of Louis XV; In 1746 Diderot published his Pensees philisophiques, followed in 1749 by his Lettres sur les Aveugles and the first volume of the Encyclopédie, in 1751.

28. Meanwhile, the Encyclopédie of Denis Diderot distinguishes between the parody and the burlesque, "A good parody is a fine amusement, capable of amusing and instructing the most sensible and polished minds; the burlesque is a miserable Buffoonery which can only please the populace."

29. The Age of Enlightenment was marked by the work of biologist Buffon and chemist Lavoisier, who discovered the role of oxygen in combustion, while Diderot and D'Alembert published the Encyclopédie, which aimed to give access to "useful knowledge" to the people, a knowledge that they can apply to their everyday life.