... in fact the collective effort of over one hundred French thinkers. The central purpose of the work was to secularize learning and, above all other things, to refute what the authors felt were dangerous carry-overs from the Middle Ages. For the Encyclopedists, human improvement was not a religious issue, but simply a matter of mastering the natural world through science and ... . There is the first galaxy of artists- poets, painters, musicians, and theorists of art and society an outpouring of genius hard to match in any period for variety and numbers. Romanticism included political and ...

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... and to fight against what denies its existence and prevents understanding of it. Rousseau showed the close link between equality and freedom. It is by his keen sensitivity, a precursor of romanticism that he could be able to achieve his demonstration. He is also an outstanding theoretician  of the republic.  Having taken the opposite philosophy of Hobbes, he can still return to ... a strong defender of modern democracy. Nevertheless, certain ambiguities continue to exist, or at least several paradoxes. Indeed, very often in their books, one finds two clearly distinct th...

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