It was on this date, January 15, 1678, that the French priest who is remembered as a lifelong atheist, Jean Meslier, was born. Meslier has been described as the first person in the West to write an entire text in support of atheism – discovered, redacted (to make him a Deist) and promoted by Voltaire. …
Monthly Archive: January 2013
Permanent link to this article: http://freethoughtalmanac.com/?p=6905
Permanent link to this article: http://freethoughtalmanac.com/?p=5912
Jan 12
January 12: James Mark Baldwin (1861)
It was on this date, January 12, 1861, that American philosopher and psychologist James Mark Baldwin was born. He studied theology for a time at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), but switched to philosophy and taught French and German at Princeton Theological Seminary. Baldwin made important contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and …
Permanent link to this article: http://freethoughtalmanac.com/?p=6921
Recent Comments