Le baron d’Holbach contre les miracles

The baron d’Holbach is one of the most systematic negators of miracles during the Enlightenment period. He unites all the usual arguments against the existence of miracles, be they metaphysical as in Spinoza’s works or epistemological in the questioning of the validity of testimony in favour of supposedly miraculous events. He varies these arguments according to the needs of his philosophical proselytization and goes so far as to adopt – in order to subvert them – the religious categories generally employed to define such phenomena.