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Clerical philosophers[1] is the name given to a group of Catholic intellectuals, namely the Savoyard Joseph de Maistre, and the French Louis de Bonald and François-René de Chateaubriand, who sought to undermine the intellectual foundations of the French Revolution in reaction to what they perceived as its overt anti-religious and destructive character.
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...Italian thinkers rediscovered classical Greek and Roman learning and began to construct a glorious vision of 'man' that contrasted noticeably with the struggling, sinful pilgrim portrayed in the writings of clerical philosophers and theologians.