From Voltaire to La Nouvelle Critique
Author: Otis Fellows
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9782600035040
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Author: Otis Fellows
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9782600035040
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9004651470
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) (1694-1778)
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2021-06-18
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1684482933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author of more than 2,000 books and pamphlets, Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) was one of the most prolific writers of the eighteenth century, and also one of the wittiest and most insightful. This unique collection of over 800 of Voltaire’s wisest passages and choicest bons mots runs the gamut on topics from adultery to Zoroaster, in both English and French. Drawing from a wide range of his publications, private letters, and remarks recorded by his contemporaries, The Quotable Voltaire includes material never before gathered in a single volume. English translations appear alongside the original French, and each quote is thoroughly indexed and referenced, with page numbers for both the first known publication edition of each entry and the most recent edition of Voltaire’s works. The book also features over 400 quotes about Voltaire, including commentary by eighteenth-century luminaries like Samuel Johnson, Catherine the Great, Casanova, and John Adams, as well as an eclectic assortment of modern-day personages ranging from Winston Churchill and Jorge Luis Borges to Mae West and Mike Tyson. Lavishly illustrated with nearly three dozen images of Voltaire-related art, this collection opens with a scholarly essay that recounts the great man’s life and reflects on his outsized influence on Western culture. Whether you are a Voltaire scholar or a neophyte, The Quotable Voltaire is the perfect introduction to a brilliant mind.
Author: Carol Sherman
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9782600035484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hakan Gok
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2018-08-22
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 153264681X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Is there a God?" is one of those irrepressible questions that has been debated throughout human history, with scholars from opposites camps making the case for or against the existence of God. It is a never-ending debate. This book first examines the theistic arguments developed by Islamic scholar Said Nursi in the twentieth century. Although his arguments initially seem to be mere presentations of well-established theistic arguments for God--such as teleological and cosmological, and arguments from miracles and morals--it is clear that Nursi takes a fresh approach to these existing philosophical defences. The book then analyses how Nursi tackles certain atheistic arguments--such as the problem of evil and the possibility of existence without a creator--and criticism leveled against the prophets and the Qur'an.
Author: Mary Efrosini Gregory
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781433103735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines how eight eighteenth-century French theorists - Maillet, Montesquieu, La Mettrie, Buffon, Maupertuis, Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire - addressed evolutionism. Each thinker laid down a building block that would eventually open the door to the mutability of species and a departure from the long-held belief that the chain of beings is fixed. This book describes how the philosophes established a triune relationship among contemporary scientific discoveries, random creationism propelled by the motive and conscious properties of matter, and the notion of the chain of being, along with its corollaries, plenitude and continuity. Also addressed is the contemporary debate over whether apes could ever be taught to speak as well as the issue of race and the family of man.
Author: Ronald Grimsley
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9782600035347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Russell Pfohl
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9782600035316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joyce O. Lowrie
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9782600035354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: F. J. W. Harding
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9782600035309
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