Voltaire is the pen name of French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher François-Marie Arouet.
Les Délices, or "The Delights", was a Geneva home of Voltaire, a French Enlightenment writer and philosopher.
Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher.
As a youthful refugee from an ultra-Calvinist Baptist upbringing, he absorbed skeptical, anticlerical Enlightenment writers like Tom Paine.
Her work examined traditional pedagogy and challenged Enlightenment writers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
French as well as Scottish Enlightenment writers subscribed to such a pattern.
Enlightenment writers did not necessarily oppose organized religion, but they strenuously objected to religious intolerance.
La Henriade is an epic poem of 1723 written by the French Enlightenment writer and philosopher Voltaire.
While references to the sciences were often positive, there were some Enlightenment writers who criticized scientists for what they viewed as their obsessive, frivolous careers.
Enlightenment writers such as Voltaire promoted research into Zoroastrianism in the belief that it was a form of rational Deism, preferable to Christianity.