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Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Holbach is best known for The System of Nature (1770) and deservedly, since it is a clear and reasonably systematic exposition of his main ideas. His initial position determines all the rest of his argument. There is not, there can be nothing out of that Nature which includes all beings. Conceiving of nature as strictly limited to matter and motion, both of which have always existed, he flatly denies that there is any such thing as spirit or a supernatural. Mythology began, Holbach claims, when men were still in a state of nature and at the point when wise, strong, and for the most part benign men were arising as leaders and lawgivers. These leaders formed discourses by which they spoke to the imaginations of their willing auditors, using the medium of poetry, because it seem[ed] best adapted to strike the mind. Through poetry, then, and by means of its images, its fictions, its numbers, its rhyme, its harmony... the entire of nature, as well as all its parts, was personified, by its beautiful allegories. Thus mythology is given an essentially political origin. These early poets are literally legislators of mankind. The first institutors of nations, and their immediate successors in authority, only spoke to the people by fables, allegories, enigmas, of which they reserved to themselves the right of giving an explanation. Trade Books>Hardcover>Undefined>Undefined>Undefined, Nova Science Pub Inc Core >2<

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Volume 2, Buch, Hardcover, The System of Nature is a 2 volume book on philosophy written by Paul-Henri Thiry in 1770 and published in French. Most importantly, the author denies the exist… mais…

Volume 2, Buch, Hardcover, The System of Nature is a 2 volume book on philosophy written by Paul-Henri Thiry in 1770 and published in French. Most importantly, the author denies the existence of God, arguing that belief in a higher being is the product of fear, lack of understanding, and anthropomorphism. It is the most comprehensive description of Atheism in the history of philosophy. [PU: Nova Science Publishers Inc], Seiten: 280, Nova Science Publishers Inc, 2019<

ISBN: 9781536163568

Hardback, [PU: Nova Science Publishers Inc], The System of Nature is a 2 volume book on philosophy written by Paul-Henri Thiry in 1770 and published in French. Most importantly, the autho… mais…

Hardback, [PU: Nova Science Publishers Inc], The System of Nature is a 2 volume book on philosophy written by Paul-Henri Thiry in 1770 and published in French. Most importantly, the author denies the existence of God, arguing that belief in a higher being is the product of fear, lack of understanding, and anthropomorphism. It is the most comprehensive description of Atheism in the history of philosophy., Philosophy<

2019, ISBN: 9781536163568

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ISBN: 9781536163568

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