When1: 1734
When2: 1764
Who: Voltaire or François-Marie Arouet [Arouet, François-Marie]
What: novelist/essayist/philosopher
Where: France
works\ Philosophical Letters Concerning the English Nation [1734]; Zadig [1747]; Century of Louis the 14th [1751]; Essay on General History and on the Customs and Spirit of Nations [1756: culture and economics]; Candide [1759: novel]; Zaire or Zara [1759: classic tragedy]; Philosophical Dictionary [1764]
Detail: He lived 1694 to 1778 and was skeptical, rationalist, freethinking, libertarian, and deist. He criticized institutions and upheld justice. He said, "If God did not exist, he would have to be invented."
Epistemology
Mental powers have limits.
Politics
Religious freedom is necessary {écrasez l'infame}.
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