Sentences with phrase «french philosophe»

And in this, as Mr. Reilly rightly appreciates, the French philosophe drew up «the prototype for all future revolutionaries» by eliminating the family so that the state could remake the individual directly into whatever new mould the state dictates.

Sitting in the French philosophe's chaletin Ferney, Boswell pressed him to declare whether he believed in immortality and eternal life....

But few were so hopeful as the French philosophe Condorcet in his 1795 history of human progress.

If Aristotle insisted not only on the objectivity of truth but on the ability of the intellect of man to apprehend it, the French philosophe Jacques Rousseau denied this objectivity by ushering in what Cardinal Ratzinger called the «tyranny of relativism,» which gives the rationalization of homosexuality so much of its philosophical underpinning by arguing that natural law is merely a human construct and, as such, susceptible of subjective definition.

The deification of science first became explicit in the writings of the atheistic French philosophes La Mettric, D'Holbach, and Diderot.