#Voltaire

European Philosophers grouped under the “Enlightenment Era” umbrella had many fundamental disagreements. This was facilitated by the movement itself, which promoted questioning norms & authority and using reason to think
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1/There are shining examples of the fact that mathematics is not a “boys only” club.One among these is Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet (Dec 17, 1706
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This by Voltaire is often paraphrased as "Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Reducing our exposure to and belief in absurdities reduces injustice. This
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I listened to the In Our Time episode on Émilie du Châtelet, who is way up there in my personal pantheon, and Melvyn made it mainly about how nice it
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250 Jahre, bevor die Pocken dank einer #Impfung ausgerottet wurden, hat Voltaire einen Text über den Kulturkampf geschrieben: Die Pocken waren im 18. Jahrhundert die gefährlichste Krankheit Europas mit 400.000
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“The shining city upon a hill” no more. Regardless of who wins the presidency, this election is a loss for democracy and democratic values. If we thought that we as
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My guess at the standard Western canon in philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, Epicurus, Cicero, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Descartes, Berkeley, Leibniz, Hume, Spinoza, Kant
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The motifs of the steppe warrior, the harem, oriental hedonism, derives from much earlier than Robert E Howard, going back at least to the 1786 Gothic novel Vathek by William
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Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined Newton, Leibniz, and her own original ideas in "Institutions
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La filósofa Elisabeth BADINTER, desde « Le Express », sobre la guerra al islamismo radical.https://metahodos.fr/2020/10/29/__trashed-12/ 1. « La necesaria guerra contra los islamistas se ve obstaculizada por el miedo, pero también p
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My mother never saw the irony of calling me a son of a bitch.—Jack Nicholson Let's have a moment of silence for all those Americans who are stuck in traffic
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This book was found on Amazon by an Anon but there is no summary, review or date. It is only 172 pages and appears to be written shortly after WW2.
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I’ve been off Twitter for a few days and realise I missed out on the great ‘2 + 2 = 5’/’trans women are women’ debate. As someone who has written
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Free Speech/Freedom of Expression Rant - get comfy...There is a lot of debate on the issue of "free speech". A lot of people incorrectly attributing a statement to Voltaire -
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On 'cancel culture' and censorship. Would like to share a personal experience In 2015, the European Union invited Thio Li Ann as a guest speaker to commemorate human rights
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Just realizing that a blatant lie is an effective loyalty test.If you say that 2+2=5, you know that whoever rushes to agree with you can be relied upon to do
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