Crossword-Solution: DIDEROT
We have 17 clues for the answer “DIDEROT”
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| Enlightenment philosopher Denis | 1 answer |
| principal editor of an encyclopedia that disseminated the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the time | 1 answer |
| Maker of the first French encyclopedia. | 1 answer |
| French philosopher-encyclopedist | 1 answer |
| French philosopher who was a leading figure of the Enlightenment in France | 1 answer |
| French philosopher Denis | 1 answer |
| French encyclopedist-philosopher | 1 answer |
| Enlightenment-era encyclopedist | 1 answer |
| Encyclopedist and leading figure of the French Enlightenment | 1 answer |
| Edited "Encyclopedie" in 1745 | 1 answer |
| Contemporary of Voltaire | 1 answer |
| 18th C. French writer/philosopher | 1 answer |
| "L'Encyclopedie" compiler | 1 answer |
| French encyclopedist | 2 answers |
| Noted French encyclopedist | 2 answers |
| DENIS | 7 answers |
| FRENCH philosopher | 15 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DIDEROT (5)
This is my prediction: you will be, Proudhon, in spite of yourself, inevitably, by the fact of your destiny, a writer, an author; you will be a philosopher; you will be one of the lights of the century, and your name will occupy a place in the annals of the nineteenth century, like those of Gassendi, Descartes, Malebranche, and Bacon in the seventeenth, and those of Diderot, Montesquieu, Helvetius.
While in Europe, by a natural reaction, the colleges under strict ecclesiastical control have sent forth the most powerful foes the Christian Church has ever known, of whom Voltaire and Diderot and Volney and Sainte-Beuve and Renan are types, no such effects have been noted in these newer institutions.
Since the middle of the seventeenth century a double movement has been going on in religion and philosophy, society and politics,--a movement of destruction typified by Voltaire and Rousseau, and a constructive movement represented by Diderot and Lessing.
Nucingen made one with the Prince de Ligne, with Mazarin or with Diderot, is a human formula that is almost inconceivable, but which has nevertheless been known as Pericles, Aristotle, Voltaire, and Napoleon.
Hence Moliere always shows us both sides of every human problem; and Diderot, imitating him, once wrote, “This is not a mere tale”--in what is perhaps Diderot’s masterpiece, where he shows us the beautiful picture of Mademoiselle de Lachaux sacrificed by Gardanne, side by side with that of a perfect lover dying for his mistress.
Quotes with DIDEROT (3)
As individuals, great writers from Villon to Diderot to Voltaire to Rousseau to Byron or Shelley have often shown themselves to beirresponsible, selfish, mean or sometimes even cowardly people. Their lives were drab or self destructive or reckless. We read them for their Words, not for their deeds.
Now Christianity proposes a completely different account of how history comes to a climax and what precisely constitutes the new order of the ages — which helps to explain why so many of modernity’s avatars, from Diderot to Christopher Hitchens, have specially targeted Christianity. On the Christian reading, history reached its highpoint when a young first-century Jewish rabbi, having been put to death on a brutal Roman instrument of torture, was raised from the dead through …
For even the ordinary well-read person, the French Enlightenment is largely restricted to the three big-name philosophes: Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1953–2021).