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perception Enlightenment philosophy mind nature Diderot man matter body emotion human soul materialism Naigeon LIT004050 Literature (General) DSBSujets proches
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Caroline Warman, « 1. Introduction : The Curious Materialist », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.92hpga
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L’amour est plus difficile à expliquer que la faim : car le fruit n’éprouve pas le désir d’être mangé. Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten. Love is more difficult to explain than hunger, or so says the eighteenth-century philosophe and explainer of difficult things, Denis Diderot. How could we disagree? Hunger is probably a more fundamental physiological need than the complex set of feelings called love. Even if the comparison nudge...