Enlightenment Thinker
Voltaire
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The pen name of François-Marie Arouet, a French writer who attacked intolerance and cruelty with satire and campaigned for victims of injustice.
Key work: Candide (1759)
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Doubt is uncomfortable, but false certainty is worse.
Tolerance is a civic virtue.
Refuse cruelty when it dresses up as dogma.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
On the climb
ToleranceCultivate Your GardenAre Morals Just Local?The Problem of EvilWhy Allow Suffering?
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