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Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (French:; 8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment.
Sep 6, 2002 · Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’Holbach was a philosopher, translator, and prominent social figure of the French Enlightenment. In his philosophical writings Holbach developed a deterministic and materialistic metaphysics, which grounded his polemics against organized religion as well as his utilitarian ethical and political theory.
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Jun 17, 2024 · Paul-Henri Dietrich, baron d’Holbach (born December 1723, Edesheim, near Landau, Rhenish Palatinate [Germany]—died January 21, 1789, Paris, France) was a French encyclopaedist and philosopher, a celebrated exponent of atheism and materialism.
Baron D’Holbach argued that there was no such thing as free will, and that the will is a modification of the brain (a physical thing) which is disposed to action. In “The System of Nature”, one of Baron D’Holbach’s greatest books, he stated that Nature was a means for liberating humanity from religion.
Paul-Henri Thiry, baron d’Holbach (Edesheim, 1723 – Paris, 1789) was a German-born, French-naturalized philosopher. His texts are inspired by a profound dislike for superstition and religious beliefs, and his most celebrated treatise, the Système de la nature of 1770, is sometimes jokingly referred to as the ‘Bible of atheism’.
Paul Henry Thiry, baron d'Holbach (1723 - 1789) was a French author, philosopher, and encyclopedist, and one of the first outspoken atheists in Europe. He advanced a materialistic and deterministic cosmology whereby everything could be explained in terms of matter and motion.
Paul Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), was a German-born French man of leisure, known as a conversationalist, host, scholar, secular moralist, and philosopher. He was celebrated for his freely spoken views on atheism, determinism, and materialism and for his contributions to Diderot's Encyclopédie.
Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d' Holbach, the foremost exponent of atheistic materialism and the most intransigent polemicist against religion in the Enlightenment, was born of honorable but obscure German parents in Edesheim, a small town in the Palatinate; his name was originally Paul Heinrich Dietrich.
Philosopher, translator and prominent social figure of the French enlightenment. Paul-Henrl Thiry, Baron d’Holbach, aided to some extent by a partial and growing relaxation in attitudes towards religious scepticism by the 1770s, arguably provided the first avowal of atheism since classical times with his 1770 work Système de la nature.
