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Diderot, Interpreter of Nature
Denis Diderot
其他書名
Selected Writings
出版International Publishers, 1963
主題Literary Criticism / European / French
ISBN05983993489780598399342
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sP4EAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋As a philosopher Diderot speculated on free will and held a completely materialistic view of the universe; he suggested all human behavior is determined by heredity. He therefore warned his fellow philosophers against an overemphasis on mathematics and against the blind optimism that sees in the growth of physical knowledge an automatic social and human progress. He rejected the Idea of Progress. In his opinion, the aim of progressing through technology was doomed to fail. He founded his philosophy on experiment and the study of probabilities. He wrote several articles and supplements concerning gambling, mortality rates, and inoculation against smallpox for the Encyclopédie.