Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521649698
Total Pages : 192 pages
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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.

Treatise on Toleration

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241236630
Total Pages : 289 pages
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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.

Traité Sur la Tolérance

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ISBN 13 : 9788826430041
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Tolerance

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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783742038
Total Pages : 146 pages
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Download or read book Tolerance written by Caroline Warman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-01-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance was first published by the Société française d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University.

Toleration and Other Essays

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
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THE WRITINGS OF VOLTAIRE

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Total Pages : 1224 pages
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A Philosophical Dictionary

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 682 pages
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Toleration in Conflict

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521885779
Total Pages : 662 pages
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Voltaire Almighty

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408820803
Total Pages : 595 pages
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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 595 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.

Voltaire: Political Writings

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521437271
Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book Voltaire: Political Writings written by Voltaire and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-06-24 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a selection of Voltaire's most interesting and controversial texts, many not previously translated into English, this edition of political writings includes the nature and legitimacy of political power, law and the social order, and the growing disorder in the French economy.

A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199553637
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary written by Voltaire and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire's Pocket Philosophical Dictionary is a major work of the European Enlightenment. It consists of a series of short essays, arranged alphabetically, whose unifying thread is an attack on religious and political intolerance. Highly entertaining, its concern with intolerance and its consequences is still relevant today.

Philosophical Letters

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486143163
Total Pages : 169 pages
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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.

An Essay on Crimes and Punishments

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Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584776382
Total Pages : 274 pages
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Download or read book An Essay on Crimes and Punishments written by Cesare Beccaria and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the fourth edition, which contains an additional text attributed to Voltaire. Originally published anonymously in 1764, Dei Delitti e Delle Pene was the first systematic study of the principles of crime and punishment. Infused with the spirit of the Enlightenment, its advocacy of crime prevention and the abolition of torture and capital punishment marked a significant advance in criminological thought, which had changed little since the Middle Ages. It had a profound influence on the development of criminal law in Europe and the United States.

A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke XIV, 23

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Total Pages : 404 pages
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Voltaire's Revolution

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Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1633880397
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Download or read book Voltaire's Revolution written by G.K. Noyer and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voltaire, the pen name of François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778), was one of the most influential leaders of the French Enlightenment. His defense of individual freedom of conscience and his criticisms of religious fanaticism and oppressive orthodoxy had a telling effect on Western history, inspiring several leading founders of America's new laws. This is the first English translation of many of his key texts from his famous pamphlet war for tolerance, written from 1750 to 1768, originally published under pseudonyms to avoid imprisonment and to educate the average citizen. Included are “The Sermon of Rabbi Akib” (a searing attack on anti-Semitism), “Prayer to God” (from the famous Treatise on Tolerance), the hugely popular “Catechism of the Honest Man,” "The Dinner at Count Boulainvillier's," and other witty, sometimes acerbic pieces that point out the errors in the Bible, the corruption of the clergy, and the religiously-inspired persecutions, both of his day and across the ages. Many of these pamphlets were burned in a losing battle by the authorities. With a lengthy introduction and copious notes by the editor and translator, plus an appendix including first-hand accounts of the battle by noted mathematician and French revolutionary Condorcet, Frederick the Great, Irish writer Oliver Goldsmith, and others, this excellent compilation will be a welcome addition to the libraries of anyone with an interest in human rights and freedom of thought.

The Philosophy of History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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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:

A Treatise on Toleration

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book A Treatise on Toleration written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 1779 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: