Foreign thinker
Voltaire
VoltaireEnlightenment philosophy, religious criticism, writing and literatureFrench1694–1778
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
Life and Thought
Voltaire, whose real name was François-Marie Arouet, was a French philosopher, writer, and thinker of the Enlightenment. He was known for defending freedom of thought, religious tolerance, criticizing despotism, and playing an important role in shaping the intellectual climate before the French Revolution.
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