A friend sent me this quote this week from Voltaire lived from 1694 -1778. An Enlightenment Era Writer and Philosopher. Voltaire = Writer, Historian and Philosopher – Words for today — Kunstkitchen’s Blog
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Spinoza: the first philosopher of the rational Enlightenment? — The Slow Tachyon
For the radical thinkers of the Enlightenment, he was the first man to have lived and died as a true atheist. For others, including the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, he provides perhaps the most profound conception of God to be found in Western philosophy. He was bold enough to defy the thinking of his […]Continue reading “Spinoza: the first philosopher of the rational Enlightenment? — The Slow Tachyon”