Question

What contribution did Voltaire make to enlighten thought?

Answer 1

Voltaire is well credited for liberating the political from the relics of mythology and religious dogmas, and affirming the factors of consciousness and scientific knowledge.

Explanation:

• Despite the controversy of his ideas in which he equally has  places, both for the belief in the progress and the continuous development of humanity, which underlies the development of reason, and for the deciduous claims about the immutability of certain social institutions and relationships.
• In order to relieve political and social consternation and create basic conditions for respect for natural and human rights, two solutions were available to French citizenship: the radical and the opportunistic.
• The first would lead to the declaration of war in the Middle Ages, which had not yet come to an end, that is, the confrontation with the old regime in a revolutionary way.
• Another solution was to penetrate the upper classes, to the nobility, without destroying the order of things. Thus emerged a type of citizen aspiring to the nobility, as he had been portrayed by Moliere in the seventeenth century.

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