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    Counter-Enlightenment" (2003). This contradicts Berlin's depiction of Rousseau as a philosophe (albeit an erratic one) who shared the basic beliefs of his Enlightenment...
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    Voltaire (category Philosophes)
    /vɔːl-/; French: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Famous for his wit and his criticism of Christianity...
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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau (category Philosophes)
    [ʒɑ̃ ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress...
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    philosophical projects pursued under the heading of "aesthetics" by Christian Wolff and Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten. Some critics – most canonically...
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    thought: first, the moderate variety, following Descartes, Locke, and Christian Wolff, which sought accommodation between reform and the traditional systems...
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    Jacques-André Naigeon (category Philosophes)
    and works. Naigeon's only original stand-alone work was Le militaire philosophe, ou Difficultés sur la religion, proposées au Père Malebranche (London...
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    False but influential letters depict him as a somewhat more radical philosophe than he probably was. His policies are now known as Josephinism. He was...
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    his effort to explain the philosophy of Christian Wolff to women. This series began as a popularisation of Wolff's philosophy in the form of a philosophical...
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    Catherine the Great (category Russian Orthodox Christians from Russia)
    It was during this period that she first read Voltaire and the other philosophes of the French Enlightenment. As she learned Russian, she became increasingly...
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    Jean-François de (10 July 1999). Pierre Chanut, ami de Descartes: un diplomate philosophe. Editions Beauchesne. ISBN 9782701013831. Retrieved 10 July 2017 – via...
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