essay on Voltaire's enlightment views
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During the time of the enlightenment, there was a group of people known as philosophes, people who
brought 'the light of knowledge to their ignorant fellow creatures'(McKay, 601).The prevalent ideals of these
thinkers were progress, reason, and the search for natural law. Of these thinkers, Francois Marie Arouet, or
Voltaire was undoubtedly the most famous. One of the more interesting of the enlightenment figures, Voltaire
used wit and clever satire to convey his messages.
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