AFORISMOS. EXTRAIDOS DE LA CORRESPONDENCIA

AFORISMOS. EXTRAIDOS DE LA CORRESPONDENCIA

VOLTAIRE

$230.00
IVA incluido
Agotado
Editorial:
HERMIDA EDITORES
Materia
FILOSOFIA
ISBN:
978-84-940159-6-0
Idioma:
Castellano

Las máximas y aforismos de Voltaire que el lector tiene en sus manos son una selección de la extensa correspondencia que el filósofo francés mantuvo a lo largo de su vida con sus coetáneos. Entre sus destinatarios encontramos aquí a buena parte de los grandes hombres del siglo XVIII como a d´Alembert, Diderot, Rousseau, Federico II de Prusia, Helvétius, Maupertuis, y a mujeres influyentes como la marquesa de Deffand, la señora de Épinay o la señora Denis.
Muchas de las inquietudes de este pensador agudo, irónico, inconformista, pícaro y ocurrente se manifiestan en estos pequeños fragmentos: su lucha por la tolerancia y la libertad, el rechazo a todo dogma, forma de hipocresía y manifestación del fanatismo, la crítica a la sociedad, el anuncio de una próxima revolución en Francia, la necesidad de un uso correcto y cuidado del lenguaje, y la reivindicación del sentimiento humano frente a la razón que, entre otras muchas más, dibujan el retrato de un filósofo francés preocupado por el hombre y por el destino de Europa.

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