Editing Denis Diderot (section)

===''Philosophical Thoughts''===
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In 1746, Diderot wrote his first original work: the ''[[Philosophical Thoughts]]'' (''Pensées philosophiques'').<ref name="Furbank 1992 27">{{cite book|title=Diderot: A Critical Biography|author=P.N. Furbank|publisher=Alfred A. Knopf|page=27|year=1992}}</ref><ref>Bryan Magee. The Story of Philosophy. DK Publishing, Inc., New York: 1998. p. 124</ref> In this book, Diderot argued for a reconciliation of reason with feeling so as to establish harmony. According to Diderot, without feeling there is a detrimental effect on virtue, and no possibility of creating sublime work. However, since feeling without discipline can be destructive, reason is necessary to control feeling.<ref name=AoV />{{rp|625}}

At the time Diderot wrote this book he was a deist. Hence there is a defense of [[deism]] in this book, and some arguments against atheism.<ref name=AoV />{{rp|625}} The book also contains criticism of Christianity.<ref name=AoV />{{rp|626}}