The French cleric Pierre Gassendi (1592-1665) represented the materialist tradition in opposition to the attempts of René Descartes (1596-1650) to provide the natural sciences with dualist foundations. There followed the materialist and atheist abbé Jean Meslier (1664-1729), Julien Offray de La Mettrie, the German-French Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), the Encyclopedist Denis Diderot (1713-1784), and other French Enlightenment thinkers; as well as (in England) John "Walking" Stewart (1747-1822), whose insistence in seeing matter as endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
The French cleric Pierre Gassendi ( 1592 - 1665 ) represented the materialist tradition in opposition to the attempts of René Descartes ( 1596 - 1650 ) to provide the natural sciences with dualist foundations . There followed the materialist and atheist abbé Jean Meslier ( 1664 - 1729 ) , Julien Offray de La Mettrie , the German - French Paul - Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach ( 1723 - 1789 ) , the Encyclopedist Denis Diderot ( 1713 - 1784 ) , and other French Enlightenment thinkers ; as well as ( in England ) John " Walking " Stewart ( 1747 - 1822 ) , whose insistence in seeing matter as endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth ( 1770 - 1850 ) .
René Descartes lived from what year to what year?
René Descartes lived from what year to what year ?
1596-1650
1596-1650