Philosophical Dictionary By Voltaire. FULL Audiobook

Philosophical Dictionary. By Voltaire. Full Audiobook The Philosophical Dictionary is an encyclopedic dictionary published by the Enlightenment thinker Voltaire in 1764. The alphabetically arranged articles often criticize the Roman Catholic Church, Judaism, Islam, and other institutions. The first edition, released in June 1764, went by the name of Dictionnaire philosophique portatif. It was 344 pages and consisted of 73 articles. Later versions were expanded into two volumes consisting of 120 articles. The Dictionnaire was a lifelong project for Voltaire. It represents the culmination of his views on Christianity, God, morality and other subjects. The book is structured in the tradition of Bayle, Diderot and d'Alembert — that is to say, alphabetically ordered. The articles are short, radical essays that form a brilliant and bitter analysis of the social and religious conventions that then dominated eighteenth-century French thought. The text educates and amuses at the same time. Voltai