The Encyclopedia was written for a broad audience, “without assuming any prior knowledge”, as Diderot enthusiastically disclosed. “If I hear of – Diderot wrote – an invention, favorable to the progress of science and arts, I will long to disclose it; it is like a disease. Born as communicative as one can be, it is such a shame that I am not more inventive; I would have distributed my ideas to the first to come. The findings gain into value and consistency, when they belong to the common ground; and I hasten to carry them there.” Diderot did not want the Encyclopedia to be “a great manuscript carefully enclosed in the library of the monarch, and inaccessible to other eyes; a book of the state, not of the people.” He pledged for the opposite. He prefers to disseminate knowledge, inventions and shed light on mysteries, and considers that the purpose of his work was accomplished if the knowledge was disseminated to a larger number of people.

Ce travail est affecté aux projets de recherche: Prismas filosófico-morales de las crisis: Hacia una nueva pedagogía sociopolítica (FFI2013-42395-P) et Philosophy of History and Globalisation of Knowledge. Cultural Bridges Between Europe and Latin America: WORLDBRIGDES (F7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES: PIRSES-GA-2013-612644)

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