Volaitre was the usual bourgeois advocating for the mercantile british revolution to happen in france. Now that the bourgeois have been in power for 200 years, there's no point in reading their propaganda when they were still the underdog facing the monarchies.
Its so obvious this was his entire reason for being lmao and what got him all his financial backing. He wrote a whole book about how much better that judaic Britain was compared to the French.
The only instances i've read voltaire is the quote of him criticizing the HRE in hs history and the quote of him with image of the giant hand over a group of people posted around on /misc/
He is unbelievably vapid and much too tied to the politics of his day
Also has the Twain problem of just being a bit too mean spirited and arrogant for IQfy's sensibilities
Also pseudo christian ideals and neo platonism are making a comeback right now
The same reason nobody really cares about Russell anymore. Naive and smug bourgeois liberalism is something nobody really has any use for in the current political climate, not even liberals themselves.
Political and philosophical ideas thrive because people find uses for them, ideas which prove themselves unsuitable for any sort of valuable use by any group quickly find themselves in the garbage bin of history. Maybe they will see the light of day once more sometime, somewhere. But not right now.
What did this guy even propose/contribute? I genuinely have no idea after know off him for over a decade.
Seems to me like he was just some le epic troll anti establishment shitposter, an 18th century Alex Jones of sorts.
How did he get memed into this enlightenment champion?
Candide is short and reads pleasantly, which makes it standard introductory material to XVIIIth cent literature in French high schools. This is how his legacy survives.
He had a tremendous influence on the enlightenment but he never made a truly great book which is weird. Many of his defenders will say Candide but that is a middling novella.
Volaitre was the usual bourgeois advocating for the mercantile british revolution to happen in france. Now that the bourgeois have been in power for 200 years, there's no point in reading their propaganda when they were still the underdog facing the monarchies.
shuttup homosexual
seething royalist kys
Its so obvious this was his entire reason for being lmao and what got him all his financial backing. He wrote a whole book about how much better that judaic Britain was compared to the French.
Christianity has come back under the guise of socialism and cancelled him.
what
>rayciss
>antisemitic
>misogynist
Voltaire will always trigger believers of slave morality.
oh and he also didn't believe in the People, the most sacred idol of our time
Is this from Human, All Too Human?
No, it's just my opinion.
He was his day's equivalent of a boomer political cartoon strip artist.
The only instances i've read voltaire is the quote of him criticizing the HRE in hs history and the quote of him with image of the giant hand over a group of people posted around on /misc/
I like Candide and Micromegas
He is unbelievably vapid and much too tied to the politics of his day
Also has the Twain problem of just being a bit too mean spirited and arrogant for IQfy's sensibilities
Also pseudo christian ideals and neo platonism are making a comeback right now
>the Twain problem of just being a bit too mean spirited and arrogant for IQfy's sensibilities
Is this a real thing?
Being arrogant and mean spirited is definitely not a problem for this board. The problem is being those things for the wrong causes.
The same reason nobody really cares about Russell anymore. Naive and smug bourgeois liberalism is something nobody really has any use for in the current political climate, not even liberals themselves.
Political and philosophical ideas thrive because people find uses for them, ideas which prove themselves unsuitable for any sort of valuable use by any group quickly find themselves in the garbage bin of history. Maybe they will see the light of day once more sometime, somewhere. But not right now.
What did this guy even propose/contribute? I genuinely have no idea after know off him for over a decade.
Seems to me like he was just some le epic troll anti establishment shitposter, an 18th century Alex Jones of sorts.
How did he get memed into this enlightenment champion?
Candide is short and reads pleasantly, which makes it standard introductory material to XVIIIth cent literature in French high schools. This is how his legacy survives.
He had a tremendous influence on the enlightenment but he never made a truly great book which is weird. Many of his defenders will say Candide but that is a middling novella.
he said you cant criticise the big hand... so he got whooped by them
Rousseau