Reading the articles in Diderot's Encyclopedia is one of the best ways to understand the French Enlightenment. It shows the attitudes of the philosophes toward everything from Islam to Women to Intolerance to History. While the online translation of the Encyclopedia articles does not include the wonderful illustrations of the original, you will probably still find much of interest.Browse to an article on a topic of interest to you. Comment on what you found particularly interesting in that article.
I read the article the topic of dance. I found it interesting how they described it, that dance is not just a bunch of patterns and steps, it is much more than that. They interwove God into it, and that he engraved dancing on the souls of man to praise him since the beginning of time. I do not see this view on dance very often. When there is a religious view it is usually opposed to dancing, and view it as a sin.
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