Literary Classics

Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

By Voltaire

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Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary is a series of short essays, hortatory and propagandist, over an enormously wide range of subjects. It was deliberately planned as a revolutionary book and was duly denounced on all sides and described as 'a deplorable monument of the extent to which intelligence and erudition can be abused'. The subjects treated include Abraham, Angel and Anthropophages; Baptism, Beauty and Beasts; Fables, Fraud and Fanaticism; Metempsychosis, Miracles and Moses; all of them exposed to Voltaire's lucid scrutiny, his elegant irony and his passionate love of reason and justice. (Goodreads)

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GenreLiterary Classics

Length9 hrs 31 mins

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Publish dateOct 17, 2018

LanguageEnglish

1PREFACE

50HELVETIA

2ADULTERY

51HISTORY

3ADVOCATE

52IGNORANCE

4ANCIENTS AND MODERNS

53THE IMPIOUS

5ANIMALS

54JOAN OF ARC

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6ANTIQUITY

55KISSING

7ARTS

56LANGUAGES

8ASTROLOGY

57LAWS

9ATHEISM

58LIBERTY

10AUTHORITY

59LIBRARY

11AUTHORS

60LIMITS OF THE HUMAN MIND

12BANISHMENT

61LOCAL CRIMES

13BANKRUPTCY

62LOVE

14BEAUTY

63LUXURY

15BISHOP

64GENERAL REFLECTION ON MAN

16BOOKS

65MAN IN THE IRON MASK

17BOULEVERD OR BOULEVART

66MARRIAGE

18BOURGES

67MASTER

19BRAHMINS

68MEN OF LETTERS

20CHARACTER

69METAMORPHOSIS, METEMPSYCHOSIS

21CHARLATAN

70MILTON, ON THE REPROACH OF PLAGIARISM AGAINST

22CIVIL LAWS

71MOHAMMEDANS

23CLIMATE

72MOUNTAIN

24COMMON SENSE

73NAKEDNESS

25CONCATENATION OF EVENTS

74NATURAL LAW

26CONTRADICTIONS

75NATURE

27CORN

76NECESSARY

28CROMWELL

77NEW NOVELTIES

29CUSTOMS

78PHILOSOPHER

30DEMOCRACY

79POWER, OMNIPOTENCE

31DESTINY

80PRAYERS

32DEVOUT

81PRÉCIS OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

33THE ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTRY

82PREJUDICES

34EMBLEM

83RARE

35ON THE ENGLISH THEATRE

84REASON

36ENVY

85RELIGION

37EQUALITY

86SECT

38EXPIATION

87SELF-ESTEEM

39EXTREME

88SOUL

40EZOURVEIDAM

89STATES, GOVERNMENTS

41FAITH

90SUPERSTITION

42FALSE MINDS

91TEARS

43FATHERLAND

92THEIST

44FINAL CAUSES

93TOLERANCE

45FRAUD

94TRUTH

46FREE-WILL

95TYRANNY

47FRENCH

96VIRTUE

48FRIENDSHIP

97WHY?

49GOD

98DECLARATION OF THE ADMIRERS, QUESTIONERS AND DOUBTERS WHO HAVE AMUSED THEMSELVES BY PROPOUNDING TO THE SCHOLARS THE ABOVE QUESTIONS IN NINE VOLUMES.[23]