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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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 17, 2018
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1PREFACE
26CONTRADICTIONS
2ADULTERY
27CORN
3ADVOCATE
28CROMWELL
4ANCIENTS AND MODERNS
29CUSTOMS
5ANIMALS
30DEMOCRACY
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6ANTIQUITY
31DESTINY
7ARTS
32DEVOUT
8ASTROLOGY
33THE ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTRY
9ATHEISM
34EMBLEM
10AUTHORITY
35ON THE ENGLISH THEATRE
11AUTHORS
36ENVY
12BANISHMENT
37EQUALITY
13BANKRUPTCY
38EXPIATION
14BEAUTY
39EXTREME
15BISHOP
40EZOURVEIDAM
16BOOKS
41FAITH
17BOULEVERD OR BOULEVART
42FALSE MINDS
18BOURGES
43FATHERLAND
19BRAHMINS
44FINAL CAUSES
20CHARACTER
45FRAUD
21CHARLATAN
46FREE-WILL
22CIVIL LAWS
47FRENCH
23CLIMATE
48FRIENDSHIP
24COMMON SENSE
49GOD
25CONCATENATION OF EVENTS
50HELVETIA

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