[Gutenberg 18569] • Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary
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- Authors
- Voltaire
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Tags
- reference , classics , writing , philosophy , philosophy -- dictionaries
- ISBN
- 9780140442571
- Date
- 1764-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.24 MB
- Lang
- en
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 inteligence 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.