Harvard Historical Monographs, Том 36

Abbé absolute aesthetic aesthetic relativism Ancients artistic barbarism basic Bayle belief Boileau Bossuet Buffon Christian civilization Classical classical antiquity climate conception Condillac Condorcet contemporary corruption course criticism critique cultural decline Descartes Diderot Discours Dubos earthly eighteenth century empirical empiricism Encyclopédie eternal ethical evil fact Fénelon Fontenelle France French Enlightenment genius happiness historical flux historical optimism historical pessimism historical philosophy Holbach human idea of progress ideals inevitable intellectual knowledge La Mettrie laws letters Lignac Linguet literary literature littéraire Louis XIV luxury Mably man's mankind Marmontel marquis de Pompignan ment Mettrie Moderns Montesquieu moral nations nature noted Oeuvres complètes Paris Pascal passions Pensées perfectibility perhaps Perrault philo Pierre Bayle political principles progress and decadence progressionist rationalistic realm reason Réflexions relativism religion Rousseau Sade Saint-Evremond scientific seventeenth century siècle simply social taste theory thinkers thought tion true truth Turgot universal values Vauvenargues Voltaire Voltaire's writers wrote