French materialism
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French materialism combined the associationist psychology and Empiricism of John Locke with the Totality of Isaac Newton to create a complex world view in diametrical opposition to the Cartesian dualist world view.
- Man a Machine by La Mettrie led the materialist charge.
- Helvetius brought about the materialist moral realm by introducing his rational ethics.
- Diderot proved the dynamic philosophé, presenting the world in constant flux and nature as creative.
- Combined with the new order of facts of Baron d'Holbach, the popularization of progress as a natural law by the Marquis de Condorcet, and the Physiocrats belief in the Laws of Economy, these thinkers defined the French Materialist movement.
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