THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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Voltaire
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Locke
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Hobbes
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Rousseau
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Detailed explanation-1: -Voltaire renounced religion; he believed in the separation of church and state and in religious freedom, ideas he formed after his stay in England. Voltaire even claimed that “One hundred years from my day there will not be a Bible in the earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker."
Detailed explanation-2: -Voltaire was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher, who attacked the Catholic Church and advocated freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state.
Detailed explanation-4: -Voltaire believed that organized religion was a plague that had to be eliminated for the Enlightenment to succeed.