- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (Nov 20 2000)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521649692
- ISBN-13: 978-0521649698
- Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 2.3 x 0.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 322 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #881,530 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The works presented in this volume, in a new English translation, are among the most important and characteristic texts of the Enlightenment, and bring together all three aspects of Voltaire: the writer, the doer and the philosophe. Originating in Voltaire's campaign to exonerate Jean Calas, they are works of polemical brilliance, informed by his deism and humanism and by Enlightenment values and ideals more generally. The issues that they raise, concerning questions of tolerance and human dignity, are still highly relevant to our own times.
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The works presented in this volume, in a new English translation, are among the most important and characteristic texts of the Enlightenment, and bring together all three aspects of Voltaire: the writer, the doer and the philosophe. Originating in Voltaire's campaign to exonerate Jean Calas, they are works of polemical brilliance, informed by his deism and humanism and by Enlightenment values and ideals more generally. The issues which they raise, concerning questions of tolerance and human dignity, are still highly relevant to our own times.
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The murder of Calas, sanctioned by the sword of justice on 9 March 1762, in the city Toulouse, is one of the most extraordinary events to claim the attention both of our own age and of posterity. Read the first page
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The murder of Calas, sanctioned by the sword of justice on 9 March 1762, in the city Toulouse, is one of the most extraordinary events to claim the attention both of our own age and of posterity. Read the first page
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Great Writings on Freedom of religion and against tyranny, Dec 30 2004
By G. F Gori "Jeffersonian libertarian" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance (Paperback)
Voltaire's Treatiste on Tolerance is a brilliant account of the judicial murder of French Protestant Jean Calas who was accused of murdering his son who had converted to Roman Catholism. Voltaire details the case : the lack of counsel, the breaking on the wheel, burning at the stake and strangulation. Calas suffered this and continued to maintain his innocence. Through Voltaire's effort Calas was rehibilitated in 1766 and his innocence vindicated. Interspersed in the text are Voltaire's historical observations of the tolerance of the Roman Empire, the Thirty Years War, the massacre of St. Bartholmew's day were thousands perished due to religious fanaticism.Also chronicled is the case of a young nobleman accused of not taking his hat off as a religious procession passed. He was further accused of mutilating a cruxifix that was placed on a bridge. This young man, and his friend were convicted of blasphamy and heresy and sentenced to be broken on the wheel, have his tongue torn out with pincers, and then burned at the stake. The account Voltaire provides is both enlightening and frightful. If you are interested in freedom of religion, tolerance, and freethought this is a must buy!
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