Étienne Noël Damilaville is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Étienne Noël Damilaville as French philosopher and writer.
Étienne Noël Damilaville was born at Bordeaux in 1723. His recorded nationality is France.
Enlightenment argument moved philosophy into public life: it was now about government, rights and religion as much as metaphysics.
A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
That the work was done from France matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Étienne Noël Damilaville died in 1768, aged 45. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
