diderot

As a French native, I have a minor nitpick on the comparison between Diderot / Voltaire and Confucius / Mencius.

They were also familiar with the concepts and theories that had not long before been published in France by Montesquieu, Rousseau, Diderot and others.

There are actual compulsive hoarders (like my mom) but also those who do hoard but where it's less obvious: the Diderot effect you're talking about.

It goes a long way to lessen the Diderot effect.

Thus was he publicly humiliated, all the Russian Christians got an excuse to believe what they had wanted to believe anyway, and Diderot left in a huff.

The Diderot effect is in play, and then on top of that, the lifespan of all these things shortens to tech lifecycles instead of appliance or hardware lifecycles.

Funnily enough, Diderot made this very same argument.

Only few people in France know about this sequence involving Diderot and the king, and I only know about it because I’ve lived in… California.

Personally I think the Diderot effect is partly to blame.

Regarding organized religion, a quote attributed to Diderot [0] goes as follows: Le genere humain ne sera heureux et libre que quand on aura étranglé le dernier roi avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre.

> The Diderot effect is a phenomenon that occurs when acquiring a new possession leads to a spiral of consumption that results in the acquisition of even more possessions.

The only remedy we’ve found was Humanism, l’esprit critique, education for everyone, and raising awareness and allergy to all authoritarian acts, but see, in the last 50 years, I’ve seen younger people who aren’t even aware who Diderot is, let alone had enough literacy to read or write those books fluently if they spent the time, even in $130k jobs.

What is your response to that?” and Diderot, “for whom algebra was like Chinese”, had no response.

The entry under "forest" in Diderot's Encyclopédie is almost exclusively concerned with the utilité publique of forest products and the taxes, revenues, and profits that they can be made to yield.

Diderot was quite the clever debater, and soon this scandalous new atheism thing was the talk of St.

Diderot and Voltaire wrote Modern French, which is incredibly similar to the French that is spoken nowadays.

We need a modern update to Diderot's solution for kings and priests that considers politicians and billionaires.