Editing French materialism

'''French materialism''' is the name given to a handful of [[France|French]] 18th-century philosophers during the [[Age of Enlightenment]], many of them clustered around the [[Salon (gathering)|salon]] of [[Baron d'Holbach]].  Although there are important differences between them, all of them were [[Materialism|materialists]] who believed that the world was made up of a single substance, matter, the motions and properties of which could be used to explain all phenomena.  

Prominent French materialists of the 18th century include:

* [[Julien Offray de La Mettrie]]
* [[Denis Diderot]]
* [[Baron d'Holbach]]
* [[Claude Adrien Helvétius]]
* [[Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis]]
* [[Jacques-André Naigeon]]

==See also==
* [[Atheism during the Age of Enlightenment]]
* [[German materialism]]
* [[Mechanism (philosophy)]]
* [[Metaphysical naturalism]]

==External links==
* [[s:Selected Essays by Karl Marx/French Materialism|Marx's essay on French Materialism]] on [[WikiSource]]

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