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Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary

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Author
Voltaire, 1694-1778
Credits
Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Lisa Reigel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
Subject
Philosophy -- Dictionaries
Category
Text
eBook-No.
18569
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18569
Release Date
June 12, 2006
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Voltaire's — Philosophical — Dictionary — New York — CARLTON HOUSE — MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.ADULTERY — Note on a Magistrate Written about 1764 — Note for Women
  5. 5.ADVOCATE
  6. 6.ANCIENTS AND MODERNS
  7. 7.ANIMALS
  8. 8.ANTIQUITY
  9. 9.ARTS — That the Newness of the Arts in no wise proves the Newness of the Globe
  10. 10.ASTROLOGY
  11. 11.ATHEISM — SECTION I — SECTION II
  12. 12.AUTHORITY
  13. 13.AUTHORS
  14. 14.BANISHMENT
  15. 15.BANKRUPTCY
  16. 16.BEAUTY
  17. 17.BISHOP
  18. 18.BOOKS
  19. 19.BOULEVERD OR BOULEVART
  20. 20.BOURGES
  21. 21.BRAHMINS
  22. 22.CHARACTER
  23. 23.CHARLATAN — Of Charlatanry in Science and Literature
  24. 24.CIVIL LAWS — Extract from Some Notes found among a Lawyer's Papers, which maybe merit Examination.
  25. 25.CLIMATE
  26. 26.COMMON SENSE
  27. 27.CONCATENATION OF EVENTS
  28. 28.CONTRADICTIONS
  29. 29.CORN
  30. 30.CROMWELL — SECTION I — SECTION II
  31. 31.CUSTOMS — Contemptible Customs do not always Suppose a Contemptible Nation
  32. 32.DEMOCRACY
  33. 33.DESTINY
  34. 34.DEVOUT
  35. 35.THE ECCLESIASTICAL MINISTRY
  36. 36.EMBLEM
  37. 37.ON THE ENGLISH THEATRE
  38. 38.ENVY
  39. 39.EQUALITY — SECTION I — SECTION II
  40. 40.EXPIATION
  41. 41.EXTREME
  42. 42.EZOURVEIDAM
  43. 43.FAITH
  44. 44.FALSE MINDS
  45. 45.FATHERLAND
  46. 46.FINAL CAUSES
  47. 47.FRAUD
  48. 48.FREE-WILL
  49. 49.FRENCH
  50. 50.FRIENDSHIP
  51. 51.GOD
  52. 52.HELVETIA
  53. 53.HISTORY — Definition — First Foundations of History — Of Records
  54. 54.IGNORANCE
  55. 55.THE IMPIOUS
  56. 56.JOAN OF ARC
  57. 57.KISSING
  58. 58.LANGUAGES
  59. 59.LAWS
  60. 60.LIBERTY
  61. 61.LIBRARY
  62. 62.LIMITS OF THE HUMAN MIND
  63. 63.LOCAL CRIMES
  64. 64.LOVE
  65. 65.LUXURY
  66. 66.GENERAL REFLECTION ON MAN
  67. 67.MAN IN THE IRON MASK — Publishers Note [18]
  68. 68.MARRIAGE
  69. 69.MASTER — SECTION I — SECTION II
  70. 70.MEN OF LETTERS
  71. 71.METAMORPHOSIS , METEMPSYCHOSIS
  72. 72.MILTON, ON THE REPROACH OF PLAGIARISM AGAINST
  73. 73.MOHAMMEDANS
  74. 74.MOUNTAIN
  75. 75.NAKEDNESS
  76. 76.NATURAL LAW
  77. 77.NATURE
  78. 78.NECESSARY
  79. 79.NEW NOVELTIES
  80. 80.PHILOSOPHER
  81. 81.POWER , OMNIPOTENCE
  82. 82.PRAYERS
  83. 83.PRÉCIS OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY
  84. 84.PREJUDICES — Prejudices of the Senses — Physical Prejudices — Historical Prejudices — Religious Prejudices
  85. 85.RARE
  86. 86.REASON
  87. 87.RELIGION
  88. 88.SECT — SECTION I — SECTION II
  89. 89.SELF-ESTEEM
  90. 90.SOUL — SECTION I — SECTION II — SECTION III — Of the Soul of Animals, and of some Empty Ideas — SECTION IV — About the Soul, and About our Little Knowledge — SECTION V — Of Warburton's Paradox on the Immortality of the Soul — SECTION VI — Of the Need of Revelation — SECTION VII — Souls of Fools and Monsters
  91. 91.STATES , GOVERNMENTS
  92. 92.SUPERSTITION
  93. 93.TEARS
  94. 94.THEIST
  95. 95.TOLERANCE
  96. 96.TRUTH
  97. 97.TYRANNY
  98. 98.VIRTUE — SECTION I — SECTION II
  99. 99.WHY?
  100. 100.DECLARATION OF THE ADMIRERS, QUESTIONERS AND DOUBTERS WHO HAVE AMUSED THEMSELVES BY PROPOUNDING TO THE SCHOLARS THE ABOVE QUESTIONS IN NINE VOLUMES. [23]

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