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Treatise on Toleration
Voltaire
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Description for Treatise on Toleration
Paperback. Translator(s): Clarke, Desmond M. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPS; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 212 x 16. Weight in Grams: 156.
Voltaire's Treatise on Toleration is one of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought
A powerful, impassioned case for the values of freedom of conscience and religious tolerance, Treatise on Toleration was written after the Toulouse merchant Jean Calas was falsely accused of murdering his son and executed on the wheel in 1762. As it became clear that Calas had been persecuted by 'an irrational mob' for being a Protestant, the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire began a campaign to vindicate him and his family. The resulting work, a screed against fanaticism and a plea for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241236628
SKU
V9780241236628
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About Voltaire
Voltaire (Author) François-Marie Arouet, writing under the pseudonym Voltaire, was born in 1694 into a Parisian bourgeois family. He became notorious for lampoons on leading notables and was twice imprisoned in the Bastille. By his mid-thirties his literary activities precipitated a four-year exile in England where he won the praise of Swift and Pope for his political tracts. ... Read more
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