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Philosophes meaning
plural of philosophe
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Dissemination of ideas The philosophes spent a great deal of energy disseminating their ideas among educated men and women in cosmopolitan cities.
Every 11 Enlightenment The philosophes of the Enlightenment used criticism of myth as a vehicle for veiled criticisms of the Bible and the church.
The Jesuits Clement XIII's pontificate was repeatedly disturbed by disputes respecting the pressures to suppress the Jesuits coming from the progressive Enlightenment circles of the philosophes in France.
The schools they founded, Les Philosophes de la Nature and The Paracelsus Research Society, popularized modern spagyrics including the manufacture of herbal tinctures and products.
This was cause enough for the philosophes' hatred of their former friend.