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[Revised entry by J.B. Shank on August 21, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html]
Francois-Marie d’Arouet (1694 – 1778), better known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French writer and public activist who played a singular role in defining the eighteenth-century movement called the Enlightenment. At the center of his work was a new conception of philosophy and the philosopher that in several crucial respects influenced the modern concept of each. Yet in other ways Voltaire was not a philosopher at all in the modern sense of the term. He wrote as many plays, stories, and poems as patently philosophical…

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