Voltaire

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Le Philosophe Ignorant (1766)

Beschreibung

Le Philosophe Ignorant est un livre ¿¿¿¿¿crit par Voltaire en 1766. Il s'agit d'une ¿¿¿¿¿uvre philosophique qui explore les id¿¿¿¿¿es de l'ignorance et de la connaissance. Le livre suit les aventures d'un personnage nomm¿¿¿¿¿ Monsieur de La B***, qui se consid¿¿¿¿¿re ignorant et cherche ¿¿¿¿¿¿ en savoir plus sur le monde qui l'entoure. Au cours de ses voyages, il rencontre des philosophes, des scientifiques et des th¿¿¿¿¿ologiens qui lui enseignent diff¿¿¿¿¿rents aspects de la connaissance. Le livre est ¿¿¿¿¿crit dans un style satirique et humoristique, et utilise l'ironie pour critiquer les institutions religieuses et philosophiques de l'¿¿¿¿¿poque. Voltaire utilise ¿¿¿¿¿galement le personnage de La B*** pour explorer des id¿¿¿¿¿es telles que la tol¿¿¿¿¿rance, la libert¿¿¿¿¿ de pens¿¿¿¿¿e et l'importance de la recherche de la v¿¿¿¿¿rit¿¿¿¿¿. Le Philosophe Ignorant est consid¿¿¿¿¿r¿¿¿¿¿ comme l'un des ouvrages les plus importants de Voltaire, et est souvent cit¿¿¿¿¿ comme un exemple de son style satirique et de son engagement en faveur de la raison et de la libert¿¿¿¿¿. Le livre a ¿¿¿¿¿t¿¿¿¿¿ traduit dans de nombreuses langues et est toujours ¿¿¿¿¿tudi¿¿¿¿¿ aujourd'hui comme un exemple de la litt¿¿¿¿¿rature philosophique du XVIIIe si¿¿¿¿¿cle.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Autor

Francois-Marie Arouet was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian who lived from November 21, 1694, to May 30, 1778. He was better known by the pen name M. de Voltaire. Voltaire fought for free speech, religious freedom, and the separation of church and state. He was known for his wit and his criticism of Christianity (especially the Roman Catholic Church) and slavery. It is said that Voltaire wrote a lot of different kinds of writing, such as plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and even science explanations. He wrote greater than twenty thousand letters and two thousand books and leaflets. Voltaire was one of the first writers to become famous and make a lot of money around the world. He spoke out for civil rights and was always in danger because of the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. In his polemics, he made fun of prejudice, religious dogma, and the French institutions of the time in a very harsh way. Candide, his most famous and important work, is a short story that makes fun of many events, philosophers, and ideas popular at the time. Its main target is Gottfried Leibniz's idea that our world is the "best of all possible worlds."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 181g
• ISBN-13: 9781104138493
• ISBN-10: 1104138492
• Artikelnr.: 26454421