Le bon sens, ou idées naturelles opposées aux idées surnaturelles
Contributions
- Anonymous (Paul Henri Dietrich d'Holbach)
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- Anonymous (Paul Henri Dietrich d'Holbach)
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Related resources
- is derivative of
- Système de la nature, ou Des loix du monde physique et du monde moral has translation has other edition
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- Common sense, or Natural ideas opposed to supernatural. Translated from the French translation
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- Il buon senso ossia idee naturali opposte alle soprannaturali translation has other edition
- has translation
- Racconto orientale (extract from D'Holbach) translation
- has translation
- Riflessioni sulla religione cristiana translation
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Notes
Edited version of 'The System of Nature' – "the source of Man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature" – making the same argument more effectively on less than a third of its pages. As Friedrich Melchior Grimm put it, "It is the System of Nature rid of its abstract and metaphysical ideas; it is atheism put in the reach of chambermaids and wigmakers".
For more on its genesis and reception, see Philipp Blom, 'Wicked Company' (2011).