Download or read book Voltaire on Religion Selected Writings written by Voltaire and published by New York : F. Ungar Publishing Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treatise on Toleration written by Voltaire and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration is one of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious tolerance, Treatise on Toleration was written after the Toulouse merchant Jean Calas was falsely accused of murdering his son and executed on the wheel in 1762. As it became clear that Calas had been persecuted by 'an irrational mob' for being a Protestant, the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire began a campaign to vindicate him and his family. The resulting work, a screed against fanaticism and a plea for understanding, is as fresh and urgent today as when it was written.
Download or read book Philosophical Dictionary written by Voltaire and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-05-15 with total page 1119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essential Works of Voltaire written by Voltaire and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-31 with total page 4349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this carefully created collection of Voltaire's philosophical writings, novels, historical works, poetry, plays & letters. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. Table of Contents: Novels Candide Zadig Micromegas The Huron The White Bull The Man of Forty Crowns The Princess of Babylon The Sage and the Atheist Stories Memnon the Philosopher The Black and the White The World as it Goes Andre des Touches at Siam Bababec Jeannot and Colin The Travels of Scarmentado A Conversation with a Chinese Plato's Dream Pleasure in Having no Pleasure An Adventure in India The Good Brahmin The Two Comforters Ancient Faith and Fable The Study of Nature Dialogues Plays Mahomet Merope Olympia The Orphan of China Brutus Amelia Oedipus Mariamne Socrates Zaire Caesar The Prodigal Alzire Orestes Semiramis Catilina Pandora The Scotch Woman Nanine The Prude The Tatler Poems Henriade (Canto IX) The Lisbon Earthquake and Other Poems Philosophical Works A Philosophical Dictionary Letters on England Treatise on Tolerance Historical Works Age of Louis XIV The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia Letters Letters to Jonathan Swift Letter from Voltaire to Charles Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau Literary Criticism Voltaire and England by Lytton Strachey Voltaire's Tragedies by Lytton Strachey Voltaire and Frederick the Great by Lytton Strachey Lectures on Voltaire by Robert Green Ingersoll Biographies Voltaire: A Sketch of His Life and Works by G. W. Foote and J. M.
Download or read book Voltaire Treatise on Tolerance written by Voltaire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire is widely known as the author of a literary masterpiece, Candide, while his reputation as a thinker rests largely on his Philosophical Letters and Philosophical Dictionary. He is equally renowned as a critic of the forces of superstition and fanaticism, and a champion of freedom of thought and belief. The works presented here, in a new English translation, are among the most important and characteristic texts of the Enlightenment, and bring together all three aspects of Voltaire: the writer, the doer and the philosophe. Originating in Voltaire's campaign to exonerate Jean Calas, they are works of polemical brilliance, informed by his deism and humanism and by Enlightenment values and ideals more generally. The issues which they raise, concerning questions of tolerance and human dignity, are still highly relevant to our own times. This volume presents them together with an introduction by Simon Harvey and useful notes on further reading.
Download or read book Voltaire Almighty written by Roger Pearson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During much of his life Voltaire's plays and verse made him the toast of society, but his barbed wit and commitment to reason also got him into trouble. Jailed twice and eventually banished by the King, he was an outspoken critic of religious intolerance and persecution. His personal life was as colourful as his intellectual one. Voltaire never married, but had long-term affairs with two women: Emilie, who died after giving birth to the child of another lover, and his niece, Marie-Louise, with whom he spent his last twenty-five years. With its tales of illegitimacy, prison, stardom, exile, love affairs and tireless battles against critics, Church and King, Roger Pearson's brilliant biography brings Voltaire vividly to life.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Voltaire Essential Works written by Voltaire and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 2955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of Voltaire's most renowned philosophical books has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. He was an outspoken advocate of several liberties, despite the risk this placed him in under the strict censorship laws of the time. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. Table of Contents: A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY LETTERS ON ENGLAND TREATISE ON TOLERANCE CANDIDE ZADIG (The Book of Faith) MICROMEGAS THE HURON (Pupil of Nature) THE PRINCESS OF BABYLON MEMNON THE PHILOSOPHER THE BLACK AND THE WHITE THE WORLD AS IT GOES ANDRÉ DES TOUCHES AT SIAM BABABEC PLATO'S DREAM PLEASURE IN HAVING NO PLEASURE THE GOOD BRAHMIN THE TWO COMFORTERS ANCIENT FAITH AND FABLE THE STUDY OF NATURE A DIALOGUE BETWEEN MARCUS AURELIUS AND A RECOLLET FRIAR DIALOGUE BETWEEN A BRAHMIN AND A JESUIT DIALOGUES BETWEEN LUCRETIUS AND POSIDONIUS DIALOGUE BETWEEN A CLIENT AND HIS LAWYER DIALOGUE BETWEEN MADAME DE MAINTENON AND MADEMOISELLE DE L'ENCLOS DIALOGUE BETWEEN A SAVAGE AND A BACHELOR OF ARTS
Download or read book Selected Works of Voltaire written by and published by Pierides Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents Include: Poem on the Lisbon Disaster - We Must Take Sides - The Questions of Zapata - Epistle to the Romans - The Sermon of the Fifty - Homily on Superstition Homily on the Interpretation of the Old Testament - Homily on the Interpretation of the New Testament - A Treatise on Toleration
Download or read book Philosophical Letters written by Voltaire and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The voice of the Age of Reason remarks on English religion and politics during the early 18th century: Quakers, Church of England, Presbyterians, Anti-Trinitarians, Parliament, government, commerce, plus essays on Locke, Descartes, and Newton.
Download or read book Voltaire Treatise on Tolerance written by Voltaire and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatise on Tolerance was Voltaire's first major philosophical work in his battle against the infamous. The text aims at the rehabilitation of Jean Calas, a Protestant falsely accused and executed for murdering his son to prevent his conversion to Catholicism. In his Treatise, Voltaire calls for tolerance between religions and targets religious fanaticism, especially that of the Jesuits (under whom Voltaire received his early education), indicting all superstitions surrounding religions. François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day.
Download or read book The Enlightenment written by Anthony Pagden and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition-oriented view of the world ever since. Cosmopolitanism is an ancient creed; but in its modern form it was a creature of the Enlightenment attempt to create a new 'science of man', based upon a vision of humanity made up of autonomous individuals, free from all the constraints imposed by custom, prejudice, and religion. As Pagden shows, this 'new science' was based not simply on 'cold, calculating reason', as its critics claimed, but on the argument that all humans are linked by what in the Enlightenment were called 'sympathetic' attachments. The conclusion was that despite the many tribes and nations into which humanity was divided there was only one 'human nature', and that the final destiny of the species could only be the creation of one universal, cosmopolitan society. This new 'human science' provided the philosophical grounding of the modern world. It has been the inspiration behind the League of Nations, the United Nations and the European Union. Without it, international law, global justice, and human rights legislation would be unthinkable. As Anthony Pagden argues passionately and persuasively in this book, it is a legacy well worth preserving - and one that might yet come to inherit the earth.
Download or read book Voltaire s Philosophical Dictionary written by Voltaire Voltaire and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire's "Philosophical Dictionary" stands as a huge work that encapsulates the Enlightenment thinker's wit, skepticism, and intellectual prowess. Composed within the 18th century, Voltaire, a key figure of the Enlightenment, provides a complete collection of essays, reflections, and critiques that discover a myriad of subjects ranging from faith and morality to technological know-how and governance. In this magnum opus, Voltaire employs his function satirical style to dissect the prevailing institutions and ideologies of his time. With eager insights and a razor-sharp pen, he demanding situations dogma, promotes purpose, and advocates for freedom of thought. The "Philosophical Dictionary" is a testomony to Voltaire's dedication to purpose, secularism, and a relentless pursuit of understanding. Structured as an alphabetical encyclopedia, the paintings covers an extensive array of topics, providing readers with a panoramic view of the Enlightenment's highbrow panorama. Voltaire's erudition and irreverence make this collection not simplest a vital examination of his modern-day society however also a undying exploration of human nature and the pursuit of enlightenment. "Philosophical Dictionary" stays a cornerstone of Enlightenment literature, showcasing Voltaire's enduring influence as a logician, satirist, and recommend for intellectual freedom. Through its pages, readers come upon a profound and often humorous engagement with the thoughts that formed the Enlightenment and continue to resonate within the nation-states of philosophy and essential thinking.
Download or read book Selected Works of Voltaire written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Philosophy of History written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1766 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toleration and other essays written by Voltaire and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire writes a long essay questioning the Jean Calas case, reflecting on Christianity and remembering the earthquake in Lisbon. Voltaire, novelist, dramatist, poet, and philosopher was one of the most renowned figures of the Age of Enlightenment.
Download or read book The Age of Louis XIV and Other Selected Writings by Voltaire written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
