"Got an opinion,
Yeah, you're well up for slating."
"Everyone's At It" - Lily Allen
The
Illustration significated the culmination of three centuries of
continuation of ancient philosophy, as well as of continuous and
scheme-breaking scientific development, innovation in formal
disciplines like maths or logics, retaking of mythological and
anthropocentric art and literature... Overall, it was the peak of an
impressive intellectual rise in all areas.
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| Voltaire |
One of the
topics that Illustrated philosophers spoke about was human freedom
and tollerance. From the opposite political thesis of Thomas Hobbes
and John Locke to the complete anthropological model presented by
Jean-Jaques Rousseau, the limits and preferable ways of human action
were spoken about all over the European continent and the United
Kingdom, though in separated currents on the two.
The author
that interests us is the one who unified both philosophical worlds,
who brought the philosophy of Locke and Hume and the science of
Newton to the Old Continent: Voltaire. Voltaire's works all revolve
around a central thesis, which is based in the total acceptance of
all positions in debate; Voltaire, ideologically, became the biggest
defender of total tollerance in all areas, ideology, religion,
culture...
It would not
take all of the centuries passed before that to prove how disasterous
the literal applying of his thesis could be.
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