François-Marie Arouet, better known by the pen name Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, deist and philosopher.
Voltaire perceived the French bourgeoisie to be too small and ineffective, the aristocracy to be parasitic and corrupt, the commoners as ignorant and superstitious, and the church as a static force only useful as a counterbalance since its "religious tax", or the tithe, helped to cement a powerbase against the monarchy.
Voltaire distrusted democracy, which he saw as propagating the idiocy of the masses. To Voltaire only an enlightened monarch, advised by philosophers like himself, could bring about change as it was in the king's rational interest to improve the power and wealth of France in the world. Voltaire is quoted as saying that he "would rather obey one lion, than 200 rats of (his own) species". Voltaire essentially believed monarchy to be the key to progress and change.
He is best known in this day and age for his novel, Candide ou l'Optimisme (1759), which satirizes the philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz. Voltaire is also known for many memorable aphorisms, like Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer ("If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him").
Today, Voltaire is remembered and honoured in France as a courageous polemicist, who indefatigably fought for civil rights , the right to a fair trial and freedom of religion, and who denounced the hypocrisies and injustices of the ancient régime. But some of his critics, like Thomas Carlyle, argue that while he was unsurpassed in literary form, not even the most elaborate of his works was of much value for matter, and that he has never uttered any significant idea of his own.
Voltaire viewed the universe as a clock created and set in motion by a divine clockmaker, or God. He believed in a rational and orderly universe governed by natural laws rather than miracles.
it was like a clock, god was the clockmaker, had created it, set it in motion, and allowed it to run without his interference to its own natural laws.
it was like a clock, god was the clockmaker, had created it, set it in motion, and allowed it to run without his interference to its own natural laws.
Deism is a philosophical belief that posits the existence of a supreme being who created the universe but does not intervene in its affairs. Voltaire embraced deism and used it to argue for a rational understanding of the universe, emphasizing the idea of a distant and non-interventionist God who established natural laws for the functioning of the world.
Yes, Voltaire supported the heliocentric view of the universe proposed by Copernicus. He wrote about it in his work "Elements of Newton's Philosophy" where he praised the advancements made by Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton in understanding the cosmos.
Voltaire was a Deist, believing in a supreme being who created the universe but did not interfere in human affairs. He was critical of organized religion and its influence on society, advocating for reason, tolerance, and freedom of thought.
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According to Aristotle the Universe is a sphere and Earth is at the centre.
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