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Who is the real author of Mon Testament--Baron d'Holbach or Jean Meslier?
"His book Le Système de la nature became known as the Atheist's Bible."
What nonsense!
I am an atheist and I don't consider Le Système de la nature as the Bible. By the way, how do you pronounce "Le Système de la nature "?
Your being an atheist and your lack of knowledge regarding d'Holbach has nothing to do with how his work was regarded in the past. d'Holbach's work did have a large and today mostly unappreciated affect and his treatise on the system of nature did at one point have quite a reputation. -dp
If d'Holbach wrote works under different names, how did it come to light that he was indeed the author? I reckon the answer would be an interesting addition to the article. Did he claim ownership in a private letter or diary? Pnelnik (talk) 17:51, 18 October 2009 (UTC)Reply
Is he a baron, or is it just a title? I am asking because the answer should probably be including in the article. Thanks, Steve T. R. --SomeDudeWithAUserName (talk with me!) 22:12, 2 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
The question makes little sense as posed. What is the difference between "being a baron" and "having baron as a title"?!. Holbach inherited the title from his uncle. We could include that fact, duly sourced, in the article --Dannyno (talk) 07:30, 8 March 2011 (UTC)Reply
I see one title twice, under "secondary literature" and under "references": Blom, Böse Philosophen. Why did you do this? --13Peewit (talk) 07:46, 13 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
So I understand that d'Holbach is often said and believed to be the first (somewhat) open atheist in Europe so there were not many before him that could have influenced him. Thomas Hobbes definitely had influence. I believe that after reading all of d'Holbach's works and reading The Leviathan by Hobbes. But could it be argued that Lord Bolingbroke had influence over d'Holbach as well? Bolingbroke also questioned religion, though he wasn't an atheist, but was a deist or theist. I ask this because of d'Holbach's ending line in 'Good Sense' is a quote by Bolingbroke about theology that he agrees with.
Does anyone know anything more about this? I have not read any of Bolingbroke's writings so I can't be for sure and don't want to put anything in the article without more evidence than d'Holbach's single quote. --Brainboy109 17:12, 25 August 2012
Otis Fellows and P.N. Furbank spell his name as d'Holbach in their biographies of Diderot. So does Will Durant in his books 'The Age of Voltaire' and 'Rousseau and Revolution'. However, Arthur Wilson in his biography of Diderot spells the name as D'Holbach. So both spellings of his name are apparently OK; although,in my opinion, we should decide on any one spelling of the name and stick with it consistently throughout the WP article. Soham321 (talk) 18:31, 21 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
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