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Gottfried Leibniz Versus Baruch de Spinoza, dialogue is less ready to condemn Leibniz. His urge to excel admittedly makes him a less attractive character than Spinoza, but his willingness to follow arguments wherever they may go is surely worthy of our respect.

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David Hume Versus Jean-Jacques Rousseau,y, and Hume—who was guilty at worst of participating in some horseplay involving a spoof letter from Frederick the Great—responded in an undignified way. However, their imaginary dialogue occurs some time before all this unpleasantness. It takes place in a cabin on a cross-channel ferry that Hume an

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Immanuel Kant versus Adam Smith, in the work of David Hume. Kant was certainly inspired by Hume, whom he credited with waking him from his “dogmatic slumber”, but it stretches the imagination too far to suppose that an elderly and ailing Hume would have somehow found his way to the Prussian city of Königsberg long before Kant‘s ph

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Edmund Burke versus Thomas Paine, They exchanged inflammatory books and pamphlets that were lapped up by the general public of three nations, but it seems that they never met. Some creativity is therefore necessary to get them together, but the story that locates them both at a dinner hosted by William Godwin in 1791 is more plausi

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