TOLERATION

Voltaire on Toleration



Voltaire on Toleration

This paper focuses on the Voltaire on toleration. French author, satirist, the embodiment of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Voltaire is recalled as a crusader against tyranny and bigotry. contrasted to Rousseau's (1712-1778) rebelliousness and idealism, Voltaire's world view was more skeptical, but both of their concepts leveraged deeply the French Revolution. Voltaire disapproved Rousseau and wrote to him in 1761: "One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work."

With his male sibling Armand, who was a fundamentalist Catholic, Voltaire did not get on as well as with his sister. Atheism Voltaire advised not as baleful ...