philosophes

..first conjured up in the Age of Enlightenment by that gang of mediocrities otherwise known as the philosophes, not one of whom, by the way, was the intellectual equal of those medieval men -- Roger Bacon, Thomas Aquinas, Nicole Oresme, and so on -- whom they saw fit to impugn ...

[great work of ages] proceeds apace 2009

An Italian scholar, Luciano Guerci (a pupil of Franco Venturi), published in 1979 a well-documented essay, Libertà degli antichi e libertà dei moderni: Sparta, Atene e i 'philosophes' nella Francia del Settecento, in which he did show how complex the background of Constant's idea was apart from Condorcet.

'Economic Sentiments' McElroy, George C. 2002

He has sometimes been presented as a man of flabby character whose historical part was that of intermediary between impracticable French "philosophes" and the ruffians and swindlers that Martin Chuzzlewit encountered, who were all "children of liberty," and whose "boastful answer to the Despot and the Tyrant was that their bright home was in the Settin 'Sun."

Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

We turn to the eighteenth century, and primarily to the school of thinkers called 'philosophes' in France, for the fullest and most enthusiastic statement of progress as a gospel.

Progress and History Francis Sydney Marvin 1903

He classifies both of them as "philosophes," a category they share with Lincoln and Jefferson.

Politics :: The Atlantic Steven Schier 2010

"philosophes" learned to think as Marxists in the 30's, then switched sides during the cold war.

Discover Blogs 2009

The philosophes, in particular, hailed this dragon-slayer of dogma.

John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011

The common sense of the average citizen is the inferior substitute for the prudence of the gentleman, but it is still preferable to the Jacobin-like philosophes at Harvard.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The William F. Buckley Clause of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780 2010

Interesting, there is no republicocracy or republicopoly, although, of course, there is the Republic, which should be ruled by philosophes, correct?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Wishful Linguistics 2010

The philosophes, in particular, hailed this dragon-slayer of dogma.

John Paul Rollert: The Great Infidel at 300 John Paul Rollert 2011