Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Philosophy – Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, …), grade: 2.1, Churchill College, Cambridge, course: BA, language: English, abstract: Why did Voltaire regard toleration as a virtue and intolerance as a vice?
Voltaire’s essay on toleration is a witty, ironic and sometimes satirical piece which uses logic and common sense, and a multitude of examples from ancient history and more modern history, to demonstrate and argue that toleration is a virtue and intolerance is a vice. Voltaire’s wit is often conveyed by his disingenuous, straight-faced account of earlier stories about the persecution of early Christian martyrs – accounts which he mocks as fantastical superstitions – superstitions which his argues show that not only is intolerance a vice, but that it is an old-fashioned habit of human behavior which should be eschewed by modern, developed society. His historical scope is wide as is his geographical and cultural sense: he frequently refers to non-European countries in order to show that sectarian fanaticism and intra-Christian violence is a largely European phenomenon. His knowledge of the world and his knowledge of the past impart to the essay a confidence in the benefits of reason, logic and common sense.
Voltaire’s essay on toleration is a witty, ironic and sometimes satirical piece which uses logic and common sense, and a multitude of examples from ancient history and more modern history, to demonstrate and argue that toleration is a virtue and intolerance is a vice. Voltaire’s wit is often conveyed by his disingenuous, straight-faced account of earlier stories about the persecution of early Christian martyrs – accounts which he mocks as fantastical superstitions – superstitions which his argues show that not only is intolerance a vice, but that it is an old-fashioned habit of human behavior which should be eschewed by modern, developed society. His historical scope is wide as is his geographical and cultural sense: he frequently refers to non-European countries in order to show that sectarian fanaticism and intra-Christian violence is a largely European phenomenon. His knowledge of the world and his knowledge of the past impart to the essay a confidence in the benefits of reason, logic and common sense.
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Lingua Inglese ● Formato EPUB ● Pagine 5 ● ISBN 9783656214793 ● Dimensione 0.5 MB ● Casa editrice GRIN Verlag ● Città München ● Paese DE ● Pubblicato 2012 ● Edizione 1 ● Scaricabile 24 mesi ● Moneta EUR ● ID 3728718 ● Protezione dalla copia senza
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