Le Déisme réfuté par lui-même : ou examen, en forme de lettres, des principes d'incrédulité répandus dans les divers ouvrages de M. Rousseau. Fourth edition, revised and corrected
Paris, chez Humblot, 1768. 2 volumes in-12 (161 x 95 mm) of VI pp., 1 f.n.c., 280 pp. for volume I ; 2 f.n.c., 256 pp., 1 f.n.c.
(privilege). Marbled basane, spine with ornamented nerves, red edges (period binding).
"Diderot, a materialist, explains in his Lettre sur les aveugles that a certain number of physical phenomena, which require sight to be grasped, can be perceived as irrational by the visually impaired who cannot verify the reality of these phenomena thanks to this sense.
Rousseau, a deist, makes the same observation in his Profession de foi du
Vicaire savoyard using not sight but hearing. Nicolas-Sylvestre
Berger reverses their argument by saying that it is against "reason" and he uses their explanations in defense of Catholicism.
He further explains that reason must submit to facts, and in doing so, he conforms himself to the rationalism of Diderot and Rousseau" (open edition)
Minor wear, otherwise a fine copy.
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