Author(s): Maria das Graças de Souza
Journal: DoisPontos
ISSN 1807-3883
Volume: 8;
Issue: 1;
Start page: 23;
Date: 2011;
Original page
Keywords: materialism | History | Enlightenment | freedom | superstition | Holbach
ABSTRACT
We aim, in the first place, to examine at what extent Holbach's materialistic monism, as presented in his System of nature(1770), allows us to formulate an original conception of history, so that we can, secondly, ascertain whether this conception of the general course of human events could be identified in his Natural history of superstition.
Journal: DoisPontos
ISSN 1807-3883
Volume: 8;
Issue: 1;
Start page: 23;
Date: 2011;
Original page
Keywords: materialism | History | Enlightenment | freedom | superstition | Holbach
ABSTRACT
We aim, in the first place, to examine at what extent Holbach's materialistic monism, as presented in his System of nature(1770), allows us to formulate an original conception of history, so that we can, secondly, ascertain whether this conception of the general course of human events could be identified in his Natural history of superstition.
