The Skeptic's Walk (French: La Promenade du sceptique ) is a book by Denis Diderot, completed on 1747. It was first published in 1830. The book is divided into two parts: the first is a critique of religion, and the second is a philosophical debate.
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The book was reported to the Paris police between 1746 and 1747, when Diderot was under police surveillance. When the book was completed in 1747, Diderot could not find the publisher, and the only copy of the book remained at his home until it was confiscated during a police search in 1752. The book was reportedly lost in police custody, and remained unheard of until it was finally auctioned by booksellers in Paris in 1800. The surface of the book leads to a legal dispute between Diderot's daughter and a book dealer of legal ownership. The dispute caused the book to be confiscated by police for the second time. It remained unpublished until 1830.
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This book is said to reveal Diderot's intellectual development during the time it was written, and is considered a turning point in Diderot's transition to atheism. This book questions the integrity of both the Bible and the god Abraham. Part of this book presents a fictional story, made shortly after the Battle of Fontenoy, involving a small group of philosophers. Themes include choosing between worldly pleasures and 'higher' morals. The book concludes with the narrator of the "one of the blonds to be avoided by a philosopher," convincing him that it is better to embrace happiness on earth than to wait in heaven. The philosophical debate in this book is said to show a different Diderot withdrawal from the Age of Enlightenment.
This book has been described as very satirical, and while it is primarily a critic of Christian churches, it has also been called Diderot "the most unkind treatment of ancient Judaism and Judaism." Because of the religious blasphemy laws at the time, if the book was published while he was alive, Diderot would most likely be jailed or exiled from Paris.
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- Diderot, Denis (1830-31). "La Promenade du sceptique". In Diderot de Vandeul, Marie Angà © lique. MÃÆ'  © moires, correspondence and ouvrages inÃÆ' © dits de Diderot [ Memoirs, correspondence and unpublished works of Diderot ] (in French). Vol. 4. Paris, France: Paulin. pp.Ã, 240-382. OCLCÃ, 655079337 . Retrieved 2013-09-05 .
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