HST 111 Study Guide - Age Of Enlightenment, Philosophes, Dictionnaire Philosophique

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Reform movement led by the philosophes- bayle, diderot. Centered in france- problems with government, economy, and society (louis. Education and knowledge to eliminate the evils of society church. Voltaire anti- french critical of french government, bureaucracy, and church. Although he was condemned his own periods, voltaire did see/admire certain the aspects of the past. 1751, the age of louis xiv the age of louis was one of the four great periods of humankind; one-athenian greece, two- roman empire, three- Italian renaissance, four- age of louis xiv; for voltaire, what defined greatness of a society/civilization was culture and developments therefore. In all of this works, voltaire attempted to reveal what he believe to be the evils of french/european society. Voltaire"s most famous work candide (1759) attacked war, religion, religious persecution, governments catholicism catholic church. Philosophical dictionary (1764) voltaire complained that christianity could and did lead to fanaticism crimes in the name of religion intolerance of the reformation and subsequent religious wars.

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