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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Book Synopsis Tolerance by : Caroline Warman

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.

Voltaire Almighty

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408820803
Total Pages : 595 pages
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Toleration and other essays

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Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
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The Philosophy of History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
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A Philosophical Dictionary

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Letters Concerning the English Nation

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
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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.

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 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.

Toleration in Conflict

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521885779
Total Pages : 662 pages
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The Portable Enlightenment Reader

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110112797X
Total Pages : 705 pages
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Download or read book The Portable Enlightenment Reader written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-12-01 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing radical ideas such as individual liberty and an empirical appraisal of the universe through rational inquiry and natural experience, Enlightenment philosophers in Europe and America planted the seeds for modern liberalism, cultural humanism, science and technology, and laissez-faire Capitalism This volume brings together works from this era, with more than 100 selections from a range of sources. It includes examples by Kant, Diderot, Voltaire, Newton, Rousseau, Locke, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, and Paine that demonstrate the pervasive impact of Enlightenment views on philosophy and epistemology as well as on political, social, and economic institutions.

On Risk

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Publisher : Biblioasis
ISBN 13 : 177196393X
Total Pages : 137 pages
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Download or read book On Risk written by Mark Kingwell and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it? As we cope with the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, considerations of everyday risk have been more pressing, and inescapable. In the past, everyone engaged in some degree of risky behaviour, from mundane realities like taking a shower or getting into a car to purposely thrill-seeking activities like rock-climbing or BASE jumping. Many activities that seemed high-risk, such as flying, were claimed basically safe. But risk was, and always has been, a fact of life. With new focus on the risks of even leaving the safety of our homes, it’s time for a deeper consideration of risk itself. How do we manage and distribute risks? How do we predict uncertain outcomes? If risk can never be completely eliminated, can it perhaps be controlled? At the heart of these questions—which govern everything from waking up each day to the abstract mathematics of actuarial science—lie philosophical issues of life, death, and danger. Mortality is the event-horizon of daily risk. How should we conceive of it?

A Treatise on Toleration

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
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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.