Treatise on Toleration - Paperback
by Voltaire
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Availability:In StockContributor:Voltaire, Desmond M. Clarke (Translator), Desmond M. Clarke (Introduction by)Publish date:2017-02-28Pages:208
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780241236628ISBN-10:241236622UPC:9780241236628Book Category:Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:Religious, Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, PoliticalSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCCP3Y07NN
Treatise on Toleration
One of the most important essays on religious tolerance and freedom of thought, a French bestseller in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks In 1762 Jean Calas, a merchant from Toulouse, was executed after being falsely accused of killing his son. As it became clear that Calas was in fact persecuted for being a Protestant, Voltaire began a campaign to get his sentence overturned--and in the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin GroupISBN-13:9780241236628ISBN-10:241236622UPC:9780241236628Book Category:Philosophy, ReligionBook Subcategory:Religious, Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, PoliticalSize:7.70 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.3505Product ID:SCCP3Y07NN
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet; 1694--1778) was one of the key thinkers of the European Enlightenment. Of his many works, Candide remains the most popular. Desmond Clarke (translator) is a professor of philosophy at University College Cork and the author of a number of books on Descartes and the seventeenth century.
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