Understanding the Enlightenment, Voltaire, and the historical background of his statement is helpful to comprehending certain current American trends, and the history goes back aways. With the ...

A “vile people, superstitious, ignorant, and both scientifically and commercially stunted,” wrote no less an Enlightenment icon than Voltaire ... Judaism came to represent everything they ...

Her husband, Voltaire and Saint Lambert were all devastated by her death. In “The Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Woman,” Andrew Janiak, a professor of philosophy at Duke University ...

for surely Voltaire's life—law school dropout, ex-con, hero of The Age of Enlightenment, and pro bono counsel—was Shakespearean. David Lenefsky practices law in Manhattan. He was formerly ...

Voltaire, the Enlightenment philosopher, saw in this catastrophe a fissure in the narrative of a world under benevolent divine care. Through his poem on the Lisbon disaster, Voltaire erected a ...

Yet while the names most remembered from the Enlightenment era – Locke, Newton, Voltaire, Kant, Paine – belong to men, there were many women who participated in and influenced the intellectual ...

Secularisation is an unworthy expression for the men and women of the Enlightenment ― like Voltaire and Mary Wollstonecraft ― who were electrified by a certain perception of God, however ...

Voltaire was enabled to become an old and famous aristocrat by his lottery winnings. Flickr Francois-Marie Arouet, better-remembered by his pen name “Voltaire,” was born on this day in 1694 ...