Voltaire Scholars Flashcards

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Denis Dideront - Encyclopédie

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L’éclectique est un philosophe qui foulant aux pieds le préjugé, le consentement universel et l’autorité

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Influence of John Lockes Tabula Rasa

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Voltaire - n’ayant rien appris dans son enfance, il n’avait point appris de préjugés

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Marquis de Condorcet - Esquisse d’un tableau historique de l’esprit humain
the growth of knowledge led to an increased faith in human progress

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La nature n’a marqué aucun terme au perfectionnement des facultés humaines

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Voltaire on Descartes

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“le malheur de Descartes fut de n’avoir pas, dans son voyage d’Italie consultée Galilée, qui calculait, pesait, mesurait…”

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Immanuel Kant on the Enlightenment

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“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage”

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Immanuel Kant ‘motto of the enlightenment’

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“have the courage to use your own mind”

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Joseph de Maistre(1753-1821)

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«Admirer Voltaire est le signe infaillible d’une âme corrompue.»

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Isaiah Berlin

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Voltaire is ‘the central figure of the enlightenment”

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John Gray

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‘Voltaire’s writings on philosophical questions are unoriginal to the last degree’

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Voltaire on deism

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‘Je serai toujours persuade´, qu’une horloge prouve un horloger et que l’univers prouve un Dieu’

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Voltaire on the English view of religion

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‘Un Anglais comme homme libre, va au Ciel par le chemin qui lui plait’

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definition of an enlightenment philosophe.

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those philosophers who, through their writings helped popularise the Enlightenment values of reason, empiricism, toleration and humanity.

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Annelie Fitzgerald

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Voltaire’s satirical humour functions as a social corrective

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Carol Sherman

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Satiric genres usually leave us with nothing. That might suffice to account for the various absences that one feels in Zadig”

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Victor Thaddeus

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Voltaire is a “Genius of mockery”

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English Showalter

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“Micromégas is a comic fantasy based on the idea of proportion and disproportion, as the title suggests by the juxtaposition of the Greek terms for small and large”

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Carol Sherman - Tabula Rasa

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“book and mind are blank; on them experience will write, constructing its truths. The book of the world shall be read in nature”