Who is the most important thinker/author of the last 1000 years and why is it Voltaire?
Who is the most important thinker/author of the last 1000 years and why is it Voltaire?
Who is the most important thinker/author of the last 1000 years and why is it Voltaire?
[insert Mozart quote]
Henlo.
The only good answer, honestly.
You misspelled Kierkegaard.
lol
lmao, even
Who would you say instead?
How?
Unironically Nietzsche. The ideas he proposed express liberation from themselves. It's the kind of moronic bullshit that's actually super smart and made Socrates the dopest frickin' guy on the block.
>dopest
Two different definitions for that word
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Why do frenchoids shit their pants in happines hearing this cope quote?
an attempt to cope over the revolution being an irrecoverable net loss for their people
>The Kings of France were continuously frustrated by the primacy of the Emperors, but were never able to question it, even though they did object to the fact that the King of the Romans would similarly outrank them. The quest for higher status partly explains why the French kings sought the Imperial crown at the 1519 imperial election and again at the 1658 imperial election. As it happened, both attempts were unsuccessful.
Still coping that a HRE title equivalent of “Prince” outranked them in the order of precedence
objectively Bacon and Newton
Newton just made his own formulation of Galileo and Descartes for his theory of physics and built upon Fermat and Leibniz for his contribution to differential calculus. His alchemy and theology is historically irrelevant. The only relevant ideas that can properly be attribued to him is his study of gravitation and some principles on light and colors.
I would say Bacon, Galileo and Descartes were more important in the genesis of the contemporary world.
Also St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Thomas Aquinas, Petrarca, Erasmus, Luther, Calvin, Rousseau, Voltaire, Kant, Marx are certainly to be accounted.
like it or not, it's probably Karl Marx
People will fall for this bait.
that's kinda my point. billions of people signed up to his ideas, which is more than nearly everyone else ITT.
is a decent shout, mind you
>billions of people signed up
Mehh.. Youre kinda stretching it there. its more like a minority burgoise cliche signed up to his ideas and forced billions to sign up for it at gun point. Because in reality that is exactly what happend.
>billions of people signed up to his ideas
LMFAO commies are something else
It's Newton and if you disagree then you're a pseud.
The answer is objectively Karl Marx and it isn't even close.
Voltaire is based, but it is Newton, even if his concept of physics isn't totally applicable outside of the macroscopic universe.
Voltaire was not a thinker. He was just the equivalent of a blogger/journalist.
Most pseud post I have read in a while.
He’s not wrong, THOUGH
Akira Toriyama? Its from like the 80s
Is Voltaire actually worth reading?
Is he essential reading for some trying to get into French literature?
Id like to know too. I will eventually read him because I'm obsessed with this time period, but for me Rousseau will likely always be my #1. Love this dude and wish I could have been his true fren
It is trash.
I wasn't impressed with Candide, but then again I read it in English
Tom Aquinas.
wrong
I don't know why people treat Voltaire as a big deal when everything he did, somebody else did better. Diderot and Rousseau were better enlightenment ideologues, Hume was a better skeptic, Gibbon was a better historian, Doctor Johnson a better literary critic. He's only remembered for being the spiritual ancestor of all redditors of the soul.
It’s because all cosmopolitans are just heirs to Voltaire. If history has any winners, unfortunately it’s him. For now at least.
Too many options...
Euler
Newton
Einstein
Bach
Shakespeare
Dante
Kant
Hamilton
Jefferson
Aquinas
Turing, or whoever is the father of computing
(and, although I'm a Christian, I'm surprised no non-Christian has said Darwin—if you believe in evolution, he seems the most obvious choice)
He hasn’t been mentioned because the world is still in denial of Darwin, including those who believe in evolution. The implications of his work won’t settle in fully for a long time
Roger Bacon, he dragged the West into the experimental physical science domain