PhilosophersVoltaire
Voltaire
Crush intolerance with reason and irony.
Enlightenment · Empiricism1694 – 1778 FranceEnlightenment philosopherDeistChampion of tolerationStoryteller and poet
Inspirations
Locke experience, toleration
Newtona universe of laws, which proves a maker
Bayledoubt, the critique of fanaticism
Pascal "this sublime misanthrope"
criticLeibniz against "the best of worlds"
criticSimilar and opposite philosophers
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Thomas Paine The rights of man come from his birth, not from a king, and every generation has the same rights as the one before.
100 %Matthew Tindal Christianity is as old as the Creation: natural religion is perfect and revelation can only restate it.
92 %Nicolas de Condorcet Enlightenment mathematician and politician, he holds that humanity can improve with no fixed limit.
86 %Francis Hutcheson We have a "moral sense" that approves of benevolence; the best action is the one that brings the greatest happiness to the greatest numbers.
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