التنوير الفرنسي: الإنسان العقلاني فولتير أنموذجا

The French philosophy has focused on the mental aspect of man and gave it supreme value. Voltaire is the undisputed French philosopher of enlightenment. Voltaire sees that man knows nothing about this world except through experience, and that man will not find answers to his metaphysical questions in the metaphysical philosophers But he finds it in the work and rational thought, and on the social side Voltaire sees that human instinct is bound to meet; therefore reject the view of Rousseau in the human nature, Voltaire tried to restore the mind of the sensual and sensual person, and stressed the need to provide needs and pleasures, The Church, which seeks to diminish the value of the body as the source of seduction and sin, man was created to entertainment according to Voltaire. The right to freedom, freedom of thought, belief and behavior, and the right to private property, and these rights must be protected by clear and unambiguous laws. Voltaire focused on the issue of religious tolerance and saw that tolerance did not come from religion or through the imposition of laws, But the best solution to get rid of it is to spread rational philosophical thought among the people, to reach the conviction that not all people can agree on a single religion or doctrine so they have to acknowledge the difference, and Voltaire attacked the religions as a cause of human misery, but he was not an atheist he believed Although he spoke of the religion of instinct, Voltaire spoke of natural religion. Yet atheism did not stick to a philosopher as he did with Voltaire. Voltaire, Didero, Rousseau and other French Enlightenment philosophers played a prominent and influential role in the French Revolution.