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Paul Henri Thiry Holbach

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. He was born Paul Heinrich Dietrich in Edesheim, near Landau in the Rhenish Palatinate, but lived and worked mainly in Paris, where he kept a salon. He helped in the dissemination of "Protestant and especially German thought", particularly in the field of the sciences, but was best known for his atheism, and for his voluminous writings against religion, the most famous of them being The System of Nature (1770) and The Universal Morality (1776).

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Ecce Homo! Or, A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth Being a Rational Analysis of the Gospels

"Ecce Homo! Or, A Critical Inquiry into the History of Jesus of Nazareth" by Holbach is a critical examination of the life and teachings of Jesus Chri...

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Letters To Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices

"Letters to Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices" by Holbach is a philosophical treatise written in the late 18th century. This wo...

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Superstition in all ages

"Superstition in All Ages" by Baron d' Paul Henri Thiry Holbach is a philosophical treatise written in the early 18th century. The work critically exa...

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The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2

"The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 2" translated from the original French by M. de Mirabaud is a philosophica...

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The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1

"The System of Nature, or, the Laws of the Moral and Physical World. Volume 1" by Paul Henri Thiery (Baron d'Holbach) is a significant philosophical t...

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Good Sense

"Good Sense" by Baron d' Paul Henri Thiry Holbach is a philosophical treatise written in the late 18th century. This work delves deeply into themes of...

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Letters to Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices

"Letters to Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices" by Holbach is a philosophical treatise written in the late 18th century. The wor...

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Christianity Unveiled Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion

"Christianity Unveiled" by Nicolas-Antoine Boulanger is a critical examination of Christian beliefs and practices written in the early 19th century. T...

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