Who is voltaire?

Answer 1

Voltaire in his 84 years of life was a historian and essayist, playwright and storyteller, poet and philosopher, wit and pamphleteer, wealthy businessman and practical economic reformer.

edit: The greatest figure of the Enlightenment was Francois-Marie Arout, known simply as Voltaire. A Parisian, Voltaire came from a prosperous middle-class family. His numerous writings brought him both fame and fortune.

Voltaire was especially well known for his critism of Christianity and his strong belief in religious toleration. He fought against religious intolerance in France. In 1763 he penned he Treatise on Toleration, in which he reminded governments that "all men are brothers under God."

Throughout his life, Voltaire championed deism, an eighteenth-century religious philosophy based on reason and natural law. Deism built on he idea of the newtonian world-machine. In the Deists' view, a mechanic (God) had creaed the universe. To Voltaire and most other philosophes, the universe was like a clock. God, the clock-maker, had created it, set it in motion, and allowed it to run without his interference and accprding to its own natural laws.

Answer 2

Voltaire was an Enlightenment philosopher, writer, and historian known for his wit, criticism of religion, and defense of civil liberties. His works, like "Candide" and "Letters Concerning the English Nation," played a significant role in shaping Western thought.

Answer 3

Voltaire didn't have beliefs, as such. He preferred the certainty of knowledge. Isaac newton's description of the laws of physics were to Voltaire, facts. He put a lot of the misery of human experience down to mistaken beliefs about guilt, sin, destiny and so on. It was not necessary to believe in such things, better to live your life according to what you could observe without the distortion of imagination and fantasy. The power of humans do to this he called 'reason', which could be used to solve any problem.

Answer 4

Voltaire was important because he was an Enlightenment thinker who wrote many plays, novels, poetry, and histories. He was put in prison twice because he criticized the French monarchy. He realized people had rights and weren't meant to be slaves and be bossed around.

Answer 5

Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher who wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets, the most famous of which is probably Candide.

Answer 6

Voltaire's beliefs were aligned with those of St. Augustine of Hippo's beliefs; that we are born evil and are taught to be good and pure

Answer 7

There were one enlightenment ideal of the Voltaire. The Voltaire was philosophy is minimal.

Answer 8

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