How the Diderot Effect Compromises Your Happiness

But you can be freed from its grasp.

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Many years ago, a man named Denis Diderot — a French philosopher, art critic, and writer —went about his life the way any man would in the 1750s.

At the time, Diderot had just co-created l’Encyclopédie, one of the most comprehensive encyclopedias of its era. However, its secularity angered…